{"id":528051,"date":"2026-06-10T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/528051\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:47:20","slug":"strong-dollar-rally-weighs-heavier-on-struggling-asian-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/528051\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong dollar rally weighs heavier on struggling Asian countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Asian countries risk falling behind in upping rates to defend their currencies<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260610 Bank Notes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The dollar rose after the release of last weekend&#8217;s U.S. employment report, putting pressure on Asian currencies. (Photo by Akira Kodaka)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK &#8212; For Asian countries struggling with high oil prices due to the Iran war, the dollar&#8217;s rise is adding to their burden. While expectations for a U.S. Federal Reserve rate hike growing, and with economic uncertainty running high, Asian countries are finding it more difficult to defend their currencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets Asian countries risk falling behind in upping rates to defend their currencies The dollar rose after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[6742,79,20208,3396,179,18,227823,19,17,8743,54160,188345,65754],"class_list":["post-528051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asian","tag-business","tag-countries","tag-dollar","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-heavier","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rally","tag-strong","tag-struggling","tag-weighs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116725891222940686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}