Ringgit gets early Christmas gift, bounces to RM4.62 against US dollar


KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit got an early Christmas gift and bounced against the US dollar on Friday as a downward revision of third-quarter US economic growth and Malaysia’s lowest inflation rate in almost three years lifted the local note.

The jump against the greenback also came ahead of important US inflation data later tonight, a signal that expectation of an early rate cut by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) is still on the cards.

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