
The rupiah fell 0.1% on March 22, 2022, to 14,351 per dollar after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said inflation was too high and that rates could rise more than 25 basis points at a time. The Fed had raised rates by 25 basis points the previous week, its first hike since 2018.
Hawkish Fed signals strengthen the dollar and push up Fed funds expectations, raising the local-currency cost of dollar-priced feed imports for Indonesia.
After 2,356 past bullish macro events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median +0.2% over 5 sessions (60% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.7%), and +0.4% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.