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Hong Kong offshore yuan borrowing costs spiked to 110 percent on January 5 as the People's Bank of China moved to beat back short sellers. The offshore yuan rose as much as 1.18 percent to an intraday high of 6.7845 per dollar before easing back to 6.8316 in evening trading.
Squeezed offshore liquidity reflects central bank efforts to defend the yuan, which can influence the currency costs of Chinese commodity imports. The direct impact on feed prices is minor.
scmp.comXie YuJan 5, 2017After 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.
