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Chinese short-term funding costs jumped to their highest in nearly 10 years ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday due to fears of tightening liquidity. The surge forced traders with short yuan positions to exit.
The yuan dipped in early trade before strengthening that week.
Tighter onshore liquidity and forced short covering shift near-term yuan exchange rates, which affects the cost of dollar-priced feed imports for China.
reuters.comJan 19, 2017After 169 past neutral macro events, Chinese Yuan (CNY per USD) moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (50% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.2%), and -0.0% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
