Today South Korea decided to increase its interest rates to 1.5% from its record low of 1.25% but despite that the currency fell.
As far as I know increase in interest rates should appreciate a currency because of an increase in demand for that currency. Is it because a lot of people were using the Won for carry trade and had to suddenly sell because of an increase in interest rates? Or is it because of some other reason?
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Could have been an expectation thing. I don’t follow the Won but the Nov BoE rate hike we saw the same thing. Rate hike and GBP down. The market was pricing for a more hawkish BoE specifically in their forward guidance for 2018.
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