How far would China let the renminbi fall?

A lack of consensus on whether recent under-performance of Asian currencies will impact China’s willingness to let its own currency weaken is leading to disparate views on near-term valuations.

In the wake of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) raising and then promptly lowering its USD/CNY fixing in March, analysts at ING pointed to a weakening of Asian currencies and speculation that China’s focus on market stabilization might have lessened as factors supporting the idea of the central bank tolerating a weaker renminbi.

But with an assessment of China’s currency policy being as difficult as ever to establish with any certainty, there is little agreement over whether or to what extent the PBoC will entertain letting the renminbi slide.

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