Kazakh currency devalued 25%

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Just one day after allowing the tenge to fall sharply in the interbank market and no longer able to take the pain from falling crude prices, the country moved to a free float for the tenge overnight, causing the currency to plunge by a quarter.

The move is clearly a desperate attempt to preserve export competitiveness in the face of a falling rouble and a devalued yuan. This is the third time the country’s central bank has devalued the currency since 1999 - the last time was in February of 2014.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-...e-kazakh-tenge-crashes-25-after-peg-abandoned

Ripples in the pond. More to come most likely.