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      "text": "ING expects the dollar index to fall 5% to 97 by the end of 2027, with the decline concentrated in the second half of the year.",
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          "markdown": "ING expects 2027 to be a low-volatility year in foreign exchange, with the dollar drifting lower rather than falling off a cliff. The bank's outlook puts the dollar index 5% lower by the end of 2027, at 97, with the decline concentrated in the second half of the year. The theme is fat tails and slim ranges: little day-to-day movement, but large risks sitting just out of sight."
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          "markdown": "Currency volatility is near its lowest level in over a decade, ING notes, and it has stayed low through events that used to move markets. A 6% fall in the Nasdaq failed to move the dollar-yen rate significantly, and global holdings of equities and bonds, worth about 300% of global GDP, now sit in a market where banks internalise much of the flow instead of trading it openly. The calm is structural as well as cyclical."
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          "markdown": "In Asia, the call is for tech-linked currencies to lead: the Korean won, Chinese yuan, Singapore dollar and Malaysian ringgit, which outperformed in 2026 on AI export demand. Most Asian central banks are expected to finish their hiking cycles by the first quarter of 2027, and the People's Bank of China is expected to cut rates by 10 basis points in 2027, though it also raised the foreign-exchange deposit reserve requirement from 4% to 6% in November, a move that suggests the bank wants any appreciation to stay orderly. The Reserve Bank of India is expected to keep tightening gradually, with a base case of 50 basis points of hikes over the next six months."
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          "markdown": "Latin America is where the outlook gets blunt. Banxico cut its policy rate to 6.25% in November, leaving the peso with record-low protection of 225 basis points over the Fed, and ING expects the Mexican currency to stay vulnerable. Brazil is the other side of the trade: high real rates support a recovery in the real, with the policy rate expected to reach 15.00% by the end of 2027. In Central and Eastern Europe, the Hungarian forint is the preferred currency at 5.50%, the Polish zloty's outlook has shifted to mildly negative, and Serbia's central bank hiked rates to 6.0% in November."
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