SANTIAGO With the currencies of Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico hitting record lows recently, currency traders around the world are asking How much further can emerging market currencies weaken?

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Moreover, some emerging market currencies are joining the club of international currencies for the first time. Indeed, some analysts have suggested that the Chinese renminbi may rival the dollar as the leading international currency by the end of the decade.

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The American dollar soared, the Japanese yen went into orbit, the euro fell to earth, and the British pound crashed, leaving a giant crater. Emerging market currencies were hammered, as were commodity currencies such as the Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand dollars, and the South African rand.

Moreover, emerging market countries representation in global governance did not keep pace with the increasingly significant role of their economies and currencies. These countries very success thus became an obstacle to policy coordination.

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The higher interest rates rise to stabilize emerging markets currencies, the more severe their crises will be. Ultimately, even if emerging economies manage to diversify their funding away from foreign currencies, they will remain hostages to US monetary policy cycles.

Most emerging market borrowers had learned their lesson by the turn of the century, as exchange rate volatility had made the risks of currency mismatch more tangible. When international investors came knocking again in 2003, many emerging markets declined to borrow in dollars or other foreign currencies.

Ironically, today s pain stems from one of the great successes that emerging economies have achieved the reduction of foreign currency funding in favor of local currency debt. As emerging market central banks leaned against heavy capital inflows in order to mitigate exchange rate appreciation, their currencies became less volatile.

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Less advanced and emerging market economies in Europe are facing major challenges.

In recent years, assets in emerging market economies especially currencies have depreciated by 5 50 relative to the dollar, reflecting both external imbalances and the broader macro conditions of individual countries. There is a widespread view that most emerging financial markets have already priced in the effects of a gradual increase in interest rates.

Collapsing emerging market currencies, and the resulting trade pressures, will make it all the more difficult for them to prevent their unemployment levels from rising significantly. In the absence of a backstop for emerging country finances, the doomsday scenario of a protectionist vicious cycle reminiscent of the 1930 s could no longer be ruled out.

(b) Retain the in house management of emerging market equities and create a team specialized in emerging markets and alternative investments.

Thus, the past year s currency alignments have, to some extent, simply brought relative domestic price levels and exchange rates into better balance. But by now, emerging market countries exchange rates, and even more so commodity currencies, have probably overshot on the downside.ampnbsp

Foreign direct investment flows remained highly concentrated in the larger emerging market economies.

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But, because they flooded global markets with liquidity, large portfolio flows have moved into emerging market countries, whose currencies often are not as liquid as the dollar. When investment moves back into dollars, the currency fluctuations in these less liquid markets can become excessive.

Key trends in emerging market economies include high and increasing unemployment and low employment rates.

After the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, the rapid expansion of the money supply in the US and the UK triggered a sharp appreciation of the Japanese yen, as well as of some emerging market currencies. In short, QE is what merits concern not its termination.

If today s constellation of exchange rates represents some excessive dollar and yen appreciation, especially against emerging market currencies, when it will unwind? That depends on when you think the financial crisis will abate, and the timing of that is as hard to predict as exchange rates.

These risks explain why the Fed s mere suggestion of a potential move toward reducing its purchases of long term asset (so called quantitative easing) caused emerging market currencies and asset prices to plummet this summer. They also underscore Asian economies need for stronger financial safety nets.

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So today s emerging market economies should be richer than today s advanced economies were back then, right?

SANTIAGO Take a taxi in São Paulo nowadays and you will experience the maddening traffic and untidy streets of an emerging country metropolis. But when the time comes to pay for the ride, you may feel like you are in Boston, Luxemburg, or Zurich the value of the Brazilian real, like the currencies of many emerging market countries, is high and could go higher.

It has become apparent, however, that emerging market enthusiasts underestimated at least two critical factors. First, emerging economies motivation to transform their growth models was weaker than expected.

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Over the long run, globalization and economic convergence will resume, and emerging market and commodity currencies will have to strengthen. At the same time, the prospect of higher US inflation and massively higher US public debt levels must eventually weigh on the dollar, as does the still worrisome US trade deficit.

ITHACA In recent months, emerging economies have experienced capital flow whiplash. Indications that the US Federal Reserve might taper its quantitative easing (QE) drove investors to reduce their exposure to emerging markets, sharply weakening their currencies and causing their equity prices to tumble.

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This virtuous feedback loop has now turned vicious, with capital inflows amounting to only a fraction of outflows. Given this, the likely upshot of monetary tightening in the advanced economies will be a long depreciation of emerging market currencies and, in turn, a significant interest rate hike a trend that puts emerging economies at risk for the kinds of credit crises that have bedeviled developed economies over the last six years.

Many emerging market companies are in the highly vulnerable position of having borrowed heavily in foreign currencies. If capital flight occurs, the consequences will be dire tightened credit, balance of payments difficulties, inflation, rising interest rates, fiscal stress, and downgrades by the major credit rating agencies all of which implies more capital flight.

Consider Brazil, whose currency, the real, has been hammered since mid 2014 much worse than most other emerging market currencies largely because of a major corruption scandal unfolding there. Prosecutors have revealed a wide ranging kickback scheme centered on the state owned oil company Petrobras and involving executives, parliamentarians, and government officials.