Three Gulf central banks hike rates to avert currency pressure after Fed move
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain raised interest rates within minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision to do so on Wednesday as they scrambled to avoid downward pressure on their currencies due to low oil prices. Early this year, speculators attacked the Saudi riyal and other Gulf currencies as cheap…
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