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Currencies shrug off looming Fed hike

Currencies in Latin America appear to have shrugged off the prospect of a looming US interest rate hike, with most exchange rates broadly unchanged against the dollar month-to-date. The currencies of Mexico and Colombia are the exceptions, but we suspect that the falls in these cases have been more to do with the renewed slide in oil prices than with Fed-related concerns.

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