
The rand slumped on Friday as emerging-market assets sold off after Bloomberg reported Trump was weighing limits on US portfolio flows into China and restrictions on Chinese firms listing in US markets. Bank of America advised selling the rand, expecting further weakness into October.
Escalating US-China financial measures increase risk-off pressure on emerging-market currencies, raising import costs for South African feed buyers and tilting the trade outlook negative.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 45 past bullish trade events, US Dollar (Broad) moved a median -0.0% over 5 sessions (42% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.4%), and -0.0% over 20.
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.