KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit was higher at the opening, tracking crude oil price currently trading at US$43 per barrel, up by 0.23%, ahead of a virtual Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) joint ministerial monitoring committee meeting later today to recommend future supply cuts.
As at 9am, the local unit strengthened to 4.2630/2680 against the greenback from 4.2680/2720 recorded at Tuesday’s close.
AxiCorp chief global market strategist Stephen Innes said despite the slightly higher domestic unit, overall the currency market would remain a bit defensive ahead of the Opec meeting.
“I don’t think the Opec meeting will hurt the oil market, so the foreign exchange market is not very vexed,” he told Bernama.
Innes added that while the commodity market is not liking the lockdown in California, to a degree, Asian risk remains somewhat isolated in the context of the bullish reopening impulse from China.
“Thankfully the ringgit has China to lean on, but I’m not looking for any explosive moves in the currency market this week as a trader will take on a defensive posture not wanting to fight the US dollar haven impulse.
“But again, it looks like another week where external factors will thwart the ringgit’s bullish ambitions. I look for Asia’s foreign exchange and the ringgit to remain in a holding pattern while taking a cue from the renminbi,” he said.
Meanwhile, the ringgit was traded mostly lower at the opening except against the yen, where it rose to 3.9730/9780 from 3.9758/9806.
Against the Singapore dollar, the ringgit was traded lower at 3.0645/0696 from 3.0628/0661.
Vis-a-vis the British pound, the domestic unit decreased to 5.3599/3679 from 5.3431/3485 and depreciated to 4.8645/8719 from 4.8484/8534 compared with the euro.
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