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EM stocks up 0.5%, FX up 0.2%
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Fitch revises Poland's outlook to 'negative'
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Turkey's main opposition calls for rallies
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World Bank cuts Vietnam's growth forecast
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Israel has accepted Trump's Gaza ceasefire proposal
(Updates with fresh comments, graphic)
By Pranav Kashyap and Twesha Dikshit
Sept 8 (Reuters) -
Indonesian stocks flipped from early gains to finish lower,
while the rupiah moved higher, after the country ousted Finance
Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati in a cabinet shake-up on Monday.
The rupiah jumped 0.7%, logging its biggest intraday
gain in over two months, stocks quickly reversed gains
to close at an over one-week low, and international dollar bonds
fell, with the 2045 bond traded down 0.33 cents to bid at 97.58
cents.
Her removal followed two weeks of nationwide unrest over
tax fairness. Indonesia named Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa as the new
finance minister, who said 8% growth was "
not impossible
" and would find ways to quickly boost the economy.
"There would definitely be concerns about how the fiscal
situation would be in terms of fiscal policy developments out of
Indonesia going forward," said Saktiandi Supaat, regional head
Of FX Research and strategy, global markets, Maybank.
"In the interim, there will be some efforts by Bank
Indonesia to make sure the currency remains stable."
Thailand's baht, meanwhile, hit an over four-year
high against the dollar, as political jitters eased following
the election of its new prime minister on Friday, capping off
months of political uncertainty.
The yield on the country's two-year bonds hit its
lowest in over three years, while stocks in Bangkok were
at their highest in nearly a month.
Malaysian equities finished 0.5% higher, while the ringgit
inched up 0.1%.
Meanwhile, Istanbul stocks fell 2% to a over
one-month low, while the lira hovered near record lows
and two- and five-year bond yields hit
one-month highs.
Tensions spiked as the main opposition CHP urged rallies
after police ringed its Istanbul headquarters with barricades-an
action the party leader denounced as a "siege."
Renewed political uncertainty has sparked a fresh flight
from Turkish assets since a court ordered the dismissal of CHP
officials. The party has faced a months-long legal crackdown,
including against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu-the president's
chief rival-whose March arrest ignited Turkey's largest street
protests in a decade.
"If recent political uncertainties lead to a swift and
sustained deterioration in appetite for lira and place
significant pressure on reserves as we approach the monetary
policy meeting, we believe they would be open to a smaller cut
or even remaining on hold," said Yigit Onay, economist at
Deutsche Bank.
The MSCI gauge for emerging market stocks rose
0.5%, while a similar gauge for stocks ticked up
0.2%.
Vietnamese equities fell to a two-week low, after the
World Bank trimmed its forecast for the country's economic
growth on evidence that U.S. tariffs were starting to have an
impact on the exporter's shipments.
Israel said it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from
U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli foreign minister Gideon
Saar said. The Shekel rose 0.2%, to an over-one week
high, while stocks in Tel Aviv was down 0.4%.
In central and eastern Europe, most currencies were trading
marginally lower against the euro, while equities were mixed.
Romanian equities fell 0.3% following the broad
coalition government's advancement of deficit-lowering tax hike
and spending cut packages after surviving four back-to-back no
confidence votes.
The country currently has the highest budget deficit in the
European Union that it must lower to avert a ratings downgrade
from the last rung of investment grade.
Polish stocks jumped 1.4%, despite Fitch Ratings
revising the country's outlook to "negative" from "stable",
citing growing risks to public finances as the key driver.
Argentina's international bonds could open 5-6 points lower,
investors said, after President Javier Milei's party suffered a
heavy defeat to Peronists in a weekend Buenos Aires province
election. U.S.-listed Argentine shares also fell premarket.
EM currencies gained momentum as investors amped up bets on
a Federal Reserve rate cut this month after fresh data signalled
more cracks in the U.S. labour market.
Markets have fully priced a 25 bp move and now assign about
a near 10% chance to a larger 50 bp cut-up from zero a week ago,
CME FedWatch showed.
Elsewhere, South African stocks hit a two-week
high, while the the rand rose 0.2% ahead of the release
of gross domestic product figures on Tuesday.
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