Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president is driving global markets to levels not seen in nearly two decades — but in completely different directions. And the “polarization'” of emerging and developed markets is all part of “Trump reflation,” argues Divya Devesh, a foreign-exchange strategist at Standard Chartered Plc in Singapore.
In the post-Trump era, emerging markets have been feeling the heat. Malaysia’s ringgit plunged on Tuesday to be less than 1 percent from the 4.48 per dollar it reached in September of last year, the weakest level since the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. Sentiment is little different in the country’s equities market, where investors sold 1.1 billion ringgit ($248 million) of shares through Friday in the biggest weekly exodus since June.
Source: Bloomberg (23 November 2016)