June 05th, 2012 at 13:36
The South Korean won declined today as members of the Group of Seven meet today. Forex market participants do not believe that the meeting will bring anything new and expect only more talks about how bad the crisis is.
Risk aversion rules the FX market and riskier currencies suffer from it. Commodities also reacted negatively to pessimism among traders, hurting prospects for emerging economies that are usually dependent on export of raw materials. The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Index of commodities fell 0.4 percent.
USD/KRW went down from 1,179.7000 to 1,180.2999 as of 13:35 GMT today.
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