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The ringgit opened slightly weaker at 4.0450 per US dollar after US initial jobless claims fell to 189,000. The move came despite a sharp decline in US Treasury yields, while the US Dollar Index edged higher.
A weaker ringgit raises the local-currency cost of imported feed and agricultural commodities priced in dollars. The article reports only a modest move, with no new commodity supply or demand driver.
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.