{"id":4434,"date":"2020-06-18T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T05:43:49","slug":"ringgit-will-be-under-pressure-due-to-geopolitical-concerns-ambank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4434","title":{"rendered":"Ringgit will be under pressure due to geopolitical concerns: Ambank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 &nbsp;\u2013 The ringgit\u2019s movement may come under pressure as the dollar strengthened on the back of geopolitical concerns involving border skirmishes between Chinese and Indian troops, fresh provocation by Pyongyang&nbsp;as well as the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambank, in its research note today said with dark clouds on full US economic recovery post-pandemic,\u00a0\u00a0the central bank will use its &#8220;full range of tools&#8221; to cushion households and businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-1024x529.png\" alt=\"ringgit\" class=\"wp-image-4435\" width=\"510\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-1024x529.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-194x100.png 194w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-350x181.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-800x413.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe foresee the ringgit to trade between our support levels of 4.2509 and 4.2673 while our resistance is pinned at 4.2944 and 4.3126,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the key focus for today\u2019s market are the Bank of England and the Bank of Indonesia interest rate decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compared to major currencies, the ringgit rose mostly higher against major currencies, strengthening against\u00a0the Euro at 0.55 percent, British Pound at 0.53 percent, 0.19 percent against the Australian dollar, and appreciated 0.08 percent against the Singapore dollar, year-to-date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, regionally the ringgit closed lower by 0.44 percent against Japanese Yen, slid\u00a0 0.06 percent against Thai Baht, 0.20 percent to Philippine Peso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/business\/news.php?id=1852297\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 18 &nbsp;\u2013 The ringgit\u2019s movement may come under pressure as the dollar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png",1072,554,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-300x155.png",300,155,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-768x397.png",640,331,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334-1024x529.png",640,331,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png",1072,554,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png",1072,554,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png",1072,554,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png",1024,529,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/c7b2324ccb1af02014b179167463bfdb5e182311d7334.png",720,372,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Business<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=17\" rel=\"category\">Economy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}