Wednesday, February 17, 2016

MXN Shorts Crushed After Mexcian Central Bank Unexpectedly Hikes Rate By 50bps, Peso Soars

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-17/mxn-shorts-crushed-soars-after-mexcian-central-bank-unexpectedly-hikes-rate-50-bps-p

It was already a torrid day for commodity currencies, among which the MXN, or Mexican Peso, which were surging on today's latest crude short squeeze and then as if pulling a PBOC with just one intention - to crush the shorts - the Mexican Central Bank or Banxico, dealt a crushing blow on anyone short the MXN when it announced an unexpected 50 bps rate hike in the overnight rate to 3.75%.

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