I was on the Business News Network earlier today discussing whether China’s Yuan move is a big deal. Click on the image to access the video:

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News that China surpassed Japan as the world’s second largest economy is one of the biggest stories in the financial markets. For more than 4 decades, the only country with a larger economic output than Japan was the U.S. However over the past 20 years, the Japanese economy stagnated, giving China the opportunity to [...]

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With each Chinese rate hike, there has been a smaller and smaller impact on the currency market. The first rate hike back in October elicited the biggest reaction because it was the first rate hike in nearly 3 years. At the time, all of the pro-cyclical currencies plunged against the U.S. dollar with [...]

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Everyone is talking about the possibility of China raising interest rates. What if they did? How could it impact currencies?
In October, the PBoC surprised everyone by raising interest rates for the first time since 2007. At that time, we said the central bank rarely makes one off changes and we believe [...]

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I was on CNBC Squawk Box Asia last night talking about all things Asia including the outlook for Japanese Yen, Korean Won and Chinese Yuan.
Here is the clip if you missed the segment

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