The Indian rupee
Britons on Thursday cast ballots in a historic EU membership vote. The campaign to stay in the union got a boost from two opinion polls published on Wednesday, but the result was widely considered too close to call.
A victory for the "Remain" camp could spur investors to seek more risky assets, including emerging Asian currencies, especially after the Fed took a cautious stance on monetary policy tightening.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen on Tuesday said the central bank's ability to raise interest rates this year hinges in part on whether Britain votes to leave the EU and if there's a slowdown in U.S. hiring.
In the poll, the Indonesian rupiah
Foreign investors bought the country's bonds, which offer one of the highest yields in the region. The central bank last week slashed interest rates and its deputy governor indicated further easing, raising appeals of capital gains.
Sentiment on South Korea's won
Mounting caution ahead of the British vote boosted demand for the Singapore dollar
Investors squared positions on some emerging Asian currencies, rather than making fresh bets.
Sentiment on India's rupee
Rajan, a former International Monetary Fund chief economist, has been popular with foreign investors due to his efforts to tackle inflation and rescue India from its worst financial crisis in more than two decades.
Bearish bets on China's yuan
Sentiment on the yuan has remained pessimistic as the world's second-largest economy has not shown clear signs of a recovery yet.
The poll is focused on what analysts and fund managers believe are the current market positions in nine Asian emerging market currencies: the Chinese yuan, South Korean won, Singapore dollar, Indonesian rupiah, Taiwan dollar
The poll uses estimates of net long or short positions on a scale of minus 3 to plus 3. A score of plus 3 indicates the market is significantly long U.S. dollars.
The figures include positions held through non-deliverable forwards (NDFs).
(Additional reporting by Shaloo Shrivastava in BENGALURU; Editing by Richard Borsuk)
By Jongwoo Cheon