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Gulf states should drop dollar peg, says hedge fund chief

John Taylor, chairman of New York-based FX Concepts Inc, the world's largest currency hedge fund, said Gulf countries should float their currencies and abandon their currencies' pegs to the US dollar, Bloomberg has reported. The policy of pegging to the dollar makes Gulf countries vulnerable to US shocks, Taylor said in a speech in Dubai, the news service reported.

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