Yuan Forwards Weaken on U.S. Payrolls, Europe Debt Concerns Eliza McNamara Explains

Yuan Forwards Weaken on U.S. Payrolls, Europe Debt Concerns Eliza McNamara Explains

http://www.ElizaMcNamara.com My source is http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5oYOCvwNnQ8
By Bob Chen
June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Yuan forwards dropped to the lowest level in more than a week as U.S. payrolls fell short of economists' estimates and the spreading debt crisis in Europe cooled demand for emerging-market assets.
China's Finance Minister Xie Xuren on June 5 urged the Group of 20 nations to be cautious about exiting stimulus programs and to preserve policy continuity. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn that day reiterated calls for the yuan to appreciate, saying the currency is "substantially undervalued."
"The disappointing U.S. non-farm payrolls and concerns about European debt refinancing are keeping the pressure on risk appetite and Asian currencies," said Mirza Baig, a Singapore- based currency analyst at Deutsche Bank AG. "Markets have priced in a lot of the surprises and any volatility that we see will be relatively contained. Yuan NDFs are relatively cheap now."
Twelve-month non-deliverable yuan forwards declined 0.6 percent to 6.8073 per dollar as of 10:19 a.m. in Hong Kong, reflecting bets the yuan will strengthen 0.3 percent from the spot rate of 6.8306. The contracts reached 6.8080, the weakest level since May 26.
U.S. payrolls rose by 431,000 in May, the Labor Department reported June 4. That's less than the median forecast of 536,000 in a Bloomberg News survey.
China will maintain "proactive" fiscal policies and a "moderately loose" monetary stance in 2010 to ensure steady economic growth, Finance Minister Xie said in Busan, South Korea. Industrialized economies should also keep "the exchange rates of major reserve currencies relatively stable and reduce volatilities in the international financial markets," he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Bob Chen in Hong Kong at bchen45@bloomberg.net
http://www.ElizaMcNamara.com Eliza McNamara is passionate about self improvement and she has written four books on the topic they will all be available at http://www.ElizaMcNamara.com

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@noncompliant2 I agree it is a paradox

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@SUCCESSPASS One can argue that it is artifical due to its nature and not the negativity. A bit of a paradox don't you think?

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@noncompliant2 You could say that they are competing negatively by keeping the yuan artificially low!

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Great video! Not sure what this has to do with the Yuan...