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How the Strong Dollar Is Crushing Emerging Market Trade Finance
The US dollar index hovers near 119 and emerging market currencies are reeling — South Korea's won has plunged 19 percent in a week, and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF is down nearly 8 percent. Lucas and Luna explore how dollar-denominated trade credit is becoming prohibitively expensive for importers in Asia and Latin America, squeezing working capital and forcing companies to rethink supply chain financing. With the trade-weighted dollar at multi-decade highs and US import demand still robust, the episode examines specific pain points: Korean auto parts makers facing margin…
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