China doesn’t let its currency trade freely in financial markets as the United States does. Instead, it links the yuan’s value to a basket of currencies the composition of which is secret but is believed to be dominated by the US dollar. Then it restricts trading to a band 2% above or below a daily target set by the People’s Bank of China.
On Tuesday, the central bank set the target 1.9% below Monday’s level, the biggest one-day change in a decade. It also made a technical change to give market forces more influence in determining the yuan’s value: Its daily target will now be based on the previous day’s closing value and on currency supply and demand in the market. That change will allow the yuan to make bigger, faster moves up or down and better reflect investors’ outlook on the prospects for China and its currency, said David Dollar, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
China doesn’t let its currency trade freely in financial markets as the United States does. Instead, it links the yuan’s value to a basket of currencies the composition of which is secret but is believed to be dominated by the US dollar. Then it restricts trading to a band 2% above or below a daily target set by the People’s Bank of China.On Tuesday, the central bank set the target 1.9% below Monday’s level, the biggest one-day change in a decade. It also made a technical change to give market forces more influence in determining the yuan’s value: Its daily target will now be based on the previous day’s closing value and on currency supply and demand in the market. That change will allow the yuan to make bigger, faster moves up or down and better reflect investors’ outlook on the prospects for China and its currency, said David Dollar, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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