Malaysia says won't peg currency, focusing on policies to strengthen ringgit

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Malaysia says won't peg currency, focusing on policies to strengthen ringgit
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The ringgit has fallen 5.4 per cent so far this year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia’s finance ministry said on Tuesday it would implement structural policies aimed at boosting fund inflows and foreign investment that can support the ringgit, reiterating it has no plans to peg the currency to the US dollar.

In 1998, during the Asian Financial Crisis, Malaysia imposed capital controls and pegged the ringgit at 3.8000 to the dollar, maintaining the peg until 2005.Malaysia risked losing its monetary policy independence, and may need to increase its interest rates to match high borrowing costs in the United States if it re-pegged the currency, Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan told the Senate on Tuesday.

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