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The People's Bank of China will cut the foreign exchange reserve requirement ratio from 8% to 6% starting Sept. 15 to ease yuan weakness.
The yuan had fallen about 8% against the dollar year to date, reaching two-year lows.
A lower FX reserve requirement adds dollar liquidity and signals support for the yuan, which can modestly ease pressure on Chinese import demand for feed ingredients priced in dollars.
reuters.comSep 5, 2022After 50 past bearish policy events, Chinese Yuan (CNY per USD) moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (46% higher; middle half -0.4% to +0.4%), 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.
The Sept. 5 announcement of the FX reserve requirement cut from 8% to 6% was the policy trigger that increased FX supply expectations and curbed yuan weakness, shifting USD/CNY by Sept. 6.
