South African Rand feels pain from Turkey turmoil
By Bloomberg
14 August 2018 |
6:11 am
Emerging market currencies are feeling the pain from Turkey's meltdown. South Africa's rand plunged the most in almost a decade and the Mexican peso slumped as the lira continued to tumble for a fourth day.
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