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HUF Remains At The Top Despite Today’s Consolidation

EM FX
  • HUF remains the best performing currency so far this year among the EM world despite today’s consolidation.
  • The NBH decided to mark a pause in its tightening cycle, leaving its 1W deposit rate steady at 4% in the past two weeks after raising it by 220bps in the last two months of 2021.
  • HUF is up 4.9% against the USD and 4% against the Euro.
  • At the bottom, political uncertainty in Russia has been weighing on the {RU} RUB, which is down 2.3% against the greenback.
  • It is interesting to see that the RUB has been depreciating more than the {TU} TRY this month; the lira is down 1.7% against the USD.

Source: Bloomberg

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