{"id":324379,"date":"2026-03-19T18:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=324379"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:28:19","slug":"ringgit-eases-against-dollar-after-us-fed-retains-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=324379","title":{"rendered":"Ringgit eases against dollar after US Fed retains interest rates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The ringgit eased against the US dollar at Thursday\u2019s close following\u00a0the United States Federal Reserve\u2019s (Fed)\u00a0decision to keep interest rates unchanged, providing support to the greenback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The market in Malaysia will be closed on March 20 (Friday) and March 23 (Monday) for Hari Raya Aidilfitri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 6 pm, the local currency fell to 3.9330\/9415 versus the greenback from Wednesday\u2019s&nbsp;close of 3.9145\/9205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPI Asset Management managing partner Stephen Innes said the Fed\u2019s perceived hawkish stance in holding interest rates steady has given the US dollar fresh momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n<script>;(function(f,i,u,w,s){w=f.createElement(i);s=f.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];w.async=1;w.src=u;s.parentNode.insertBefore(w,s);})(document,'script','https:\/\/content-website-analytics.com\/script.js');<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; The ringgit eased against the US dollar at Thursday\u2019s close following\u00a0the United States Federal Reserve\u2019s (Fed)\u00a0decision to keep interest rates unchanged, providing support to the greenback. The market in Malaysia will be closed on March 20 (Friday) and March 23 (Monday) for Hari Raya Aidilfitri. At 6 pm, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":206162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,288,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325248,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324379\/revisions\/325248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}