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Confused by China’s Yuan? It’s Intentional
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Experts close to the central bank, PBOC, say it plans to limit depreciation to a modest amount, and to let the currency oscillate. Central bank policy is to make it expensive for traders to try to make gains on the yuan. The central bank plans to intervene the other way to make it harder for traders to make gains.
The People's Bank of China policy on the currency yuan in 2016
01/15/2016
Experts close to the central bank say the policy of the PBOC is to make it expensive for speculators to try to make gains on China's yuan currency. PBOC policy according to them is to allow for a modest depreciation and let the currency oscillate. When speculators hope to make gains the central bank intervenes to go the other way. The PBOC hope to limit outflows of capital, a problem in 2015, in this way.
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