Widespread risk aversion and position unwinds dominated market trading with China PMI, weak US earnings, and BoJ un-dovishness cited among more systemic factors.
Turkey and Argentina (among others) have more idiosyncratic risks (and limits approaching) but as Barclays notes,
market positioning has played a major role in the moves as market volatility appears to have been the
straw that broke the carry-trade's back - for now... as
EM currency returns have notably decoupled from moves in US rates.
Barclays on carry-US rates dislocation
FX markets featured significant volatility in the past week, though the driver of that volatility was a combination of several idiosyncratic factors, rather than a core underlying narrative.