WILL Malaysia suffer any contagion risks in this latest round of emerging markets (EMs) rout exacerbated by a plunge last Friday in the baht following an earlier 6% drop in the Argentine peso?
Even Thailand, with “solid growth and sizeable current account surplus” was not spared. Would countries with strong fundamentals like Malaysia escape the contagion?
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