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The yuan booked a 3.7% gain against the dollar in the third quarter, its best quarterly performance since Q1 2008. Analysts attribute the rally to China's faster economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic relative to the US.
A sustained yuan rally lowers the local-currency cost of imported feed ingredients for China, which can support import demand and dollar-denominated grain prices.
After 362 past bearish macro events, Chinese Yuan (CNY per USD) moved a median -0.1% over 5 sessions (42% higher; middle half -0.4% to +0.1%), and -0.2% 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.