{"id":13639,"date":"2015-01-30T16:16:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=13639"},"modified":"2015-09-02T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T03:52:53","slug":"ringgit-now-asias-worst-performing-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/ringgit-now-asias-worst-performing-currency","title":{"rendered":"Ringgit Now Asia\u2019s Worst Performing Currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13645\" src=\"https:\/\/static.imoney.my\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/ringgit11.png\" alt=\"Malaysian Ringgit\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/ringgit11.png 600w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/ringgit11-300x145.png 300w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/ringgit11-103x50.png 103w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Ringgit takes a further plunge as January\u2019s worst-performing currency over concerns that a protracted drop in crude oil will weigh on the oil-exporting nation.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the currency fell to a new 2009 low after Brent slid 2.3% overnight on a report showing US oil stockpiles climbed to the highest level in weekly data dating back to 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The Ringgit took another hit after it became an unwitty casualty when Singapore unexpectedly eased its tightly controlled monetary policy on Wednesday. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) had reduced the slope of its monetary policy band ahead of its scheduled review in April.<\/p>\n<p>It joined a growing list of central banks around the world taking extraordinary steps in shoring up faltering economic growth as inflation slows.<\/p>\n<h2>Ringgit fell 0.4%<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, the Ringgit fell 0.4% to 3.6340 against the US dollar. The currency earlier touched 3.6375, the weakest level since April 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Bank Negara Malaysia\u2019s decision to hold the benchmark rate was predicted by all 19 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The policy stance is accommodative and appropriate given the developments in monetary and financial conditions, the central bank said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Malaysian Ringgit takes a further plunge as January\u2019s worst-performing currency due to concerns over a protracted drop in crude oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":13645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,284],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-13639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates","category-ringgit","tag-bi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ringgit Now Asia\u2019s Worst Performing Currency | iMoney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The 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