From Jakarta to Buenos Aires, the world feels Fed's sting
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JAKARTA/BUENOS AIRES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Federal Reserve kept lifting interest rates this year, a world away in Jakarta profits dropped to next to nothing at Andy Kurniawan's shop selling collectible action figures. The Fed's decisions lifted the dollar and hit the Indonesian rupiah , making importing the figures more expensive, but Kurniawan resisted the urge to jack up prices, avoiding the folly of his favorite character, the Hulk. "Everything is a wreck" when the..