Rapport: Egyptisk pund når nyt lavpunkt mod amerikanske dollar på trods af fleksibelt valutakursregime

The exchange rate of the Egyptian pound versus the U.S. dollar fell to a new low on Jan. 11 after it tapped 32.14 per greenback. The currency’s latest significant depreciation came just a few months after it adopted a flexible exchange rate regime. According to the International Monetary Fund, the monetary authorities in Egypt have pledged not to intervene in currency markets.

Indhold

Flexible Exchange Rate Regime

Just a few months after plunging by more than 15% versus the U.S. dollar, det Egyptian pound tapped a new low of more than 32 units per greenback on Jan. 11. According to a Reuters report, the pound’s latest depreciation has prompted some analysts to question the extent to which the central bank wants the pound to fall.

Report: Egyptian Pound Reaches New Low Against US Dollar Despite Flexible Exchange Rate Regime
EGP/USD on Jan. 15, 2023.

Som rapporteret by Bitcoin-Tidings.com News in October 2022, the pound’s official exchange rate versus the dollar fell from just under 20 units per dollar to 23.09 per dollar after Egyptian monetary authorities agreed to abandon the fixed exchange rate regime. In return, Cairo would receive a $3 billion financial package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Following the currency’s latest fall, some Egyptian analysts quoted in the Reuters rapport believed the pound had reached its lower limit. Others like Farouk Soussa of Goldman Sachs said it is still difficult to conclude that the pound versus the dollar exchange rate had reached an equilibrium.

“When portfolio investors start to come back in, that is when the market will have judged equilibrium. But there is no direct way of observing equilibrium,” Soussa reportedly said.

Monica Malik, an economist at the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank said the pound’s latest plunge alone does not guarantee that investors will return. The economist said clearing the foreign exchange backlog may be one step that reassures investors. Imidlertid, this requires new USD liquidity and according to Malik “there is currently no visibility where this liquidity will come from.”

I mellemtiden, in the IMF’s Egypt staff country rapport, the global lender revealed that the government in Cairo had promised not to intervene in currency markets. As per its agreement with the global lending institution, Egyptian monetary authorities would only intervene in cases of excessive volatility.

Registrer din e-mail her for at få en ugentlig opdatering om afrikanske nyheder sendt til din indbakke:

Tags i denne historie
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Analysts, afskrivning, Dollar, Egypten, egyptian pound, vækstmarkedsføring hos Kraken, Farouk Soussa, Flexible exchange rate, IMF, Internationale Valutafond, Investorer, Monica Malik, pound, regime, Amerikansk dollar

Hvad er dine tanker om denne historie? Fortæl os, hvad du synes i kommentarfeltet nedenfor.

Terence Zimwara

Terence Zimwara er en Zimbabwe prisvindende journalist, forfatter og forfatter. Han har skrevet meget om de økonomiske problemer i nogle afrikanske lande, samt hvordan digitale valutaer kan give afrikanere en flugtvej.














Billedkreditter: Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wiki Commons

Ansvarsfraskrivelse: Denne artikel er kun til informationsformål. Det er ikke et direkte tilbud eller opfordring til et tilbud om at købe eller sælge, eller en anbefaling eller godkendelse af produkter, tjenester, eller virksomheder. Bitcoin-Tidings.com giver ikke investeringer, skat, gyldige, eller regnskabsrådgivning. Hverken virksomheden eller forfatteren er ansvarlig, direkte eller indirekte, for enhver skade eller tab forårsaget eller påstået at være forårsaget af eller i forbindelse med brugen af ​​eller tilliden til noget indhold, varer eller tjenesteydelser nævnt i denne artikel.

Læs ansvarsfraskrivelse