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The ringgit closed at 4.0565/0610 per US dollar, weaker than Thursday’s 4.0445/0490. Risk aversion amid semiconductor-sector selling and safe-haven demand for the dollar weighed on the currency.
A weaker ringgit raises the local-currency cost of dollar-priced imported feed and agricultural commodities, all else equal. The article describes currency-market pressure rather than a change in physical commodity supply or demand.
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.