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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 366.09-0.1%Nov 6 4:00 PM EST

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To: TobagoJack who wrote (192515)10/7/2022 11:51:25 PM
From: marcher  Read Replies (1) of 217553
 
are they sweating bullets due to relative dollar strength
per the following:

sept 22, 2022

BEIJING — ...another currency is also weakening against the dollar: China’s renminbi.
...China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, fixed the initial value of the renminbi at more than 7 to the
dollar for the first time in more than two years. It was the weakest fixing of the Chinese currency since July
2020, breaking through a mainly psychological barrier that the renminbi would continue to be worth between
6 and 7 to the dollar.

At the same time, the central bank on Monday tightened a technical regulation to make it slightly more difficult
for traders to place large bets on a further decline in the value of the renminbi.

China’s decision to let a psychological barrier like 7-to-the-dollar be breached, while using the rule change to
discourage trading against the currency, “basically meant the People’s Bank of China does not want to try to
defend any particular foreign exchange level, but to slow the pace of depreciation,” said Peiqian Liu, a China
economist at NatWest Markets..."

nytimes.com
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