SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Foreign exchange investors are increasingly betting that bushfires which have torched a swathe of Australia the size of South Korea will hurt the country's economy, and some are short-selling the Australian dollar in anticipation it will fall.
Hundreds of blazes are raging on the continent's east coast and have already killed 27 people, razed thousands of homes and turned picturesque tourist towns to cinder and ash.
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