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Rial: Disorderly Decline Possible

October 2008 | Economic Analysis

The Iranian rial appears to have departed from its previous path of gradual depreciation via a crawling peg. We see a risk of further sharp declines, in line with a US dollar bounce, lower oil prices and wide-scale risk aversion.

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