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Major state-owned Chinese banks are reportedly conducting large currency swaps to absorb an influx of dollars, possibly to cap yuan appreciation. One-year dollar/yuan swap points rose to 1,750 from about 1,610 the prior week.
Intervention to limit yuan strength affects China's currency-driven import costs, and the effect on feed commodity prices is indirect.
reuters.comMar 16, 2021After 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.
