Currencies across Latin America have been caught up in the EM-wide sell-off in recent weeks, triggered by the US Fed signalling that a June interest rate hike is still on the table. But a combination of domestic factors and external vulnerabilities means that the region’s currencies have underperformed those elsewhere in the emerging world.
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