US: Russia and China playing an unfair devaluation game? – Danske Bank
|President Trump has rediscovered the currency topic, tweeting yesterday that both Russia and China are playing an unfair devaluation game against the Americans, notes the research team at Danske Bank.
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“USD sold off on this and extended losses against most peers in Asian trading this morning, with EUR/USD trading at 1.238 at the time of writing. We do not think that China is keeping its currency artificially weak to gain a competitive advantage and neither does the US Treasury department in its latest currency report, where none of the US's primary trading partners were labelled a currency manipulator. Instead, we think the rhetoric is clearly linked to the ongoing trade dispute with China, where the next round of escalation could start this week.”
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