Yuan in the sights of speculators

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Yuan in the sights of speculators

If George Soros announces, against a currency to bet on, this is quite a reason to be nervous. But that is also true in the case of China’s Yuan? Some hedge funds will jump at least on the train.

The Chinese economy is directly at the beginning of the year in turmoil get. The trading on the stock exchanges had to twice be exposed to panic on the markets to prevent. The value of the Chinese Yuan (also Renminbi), fell in comparison to the US Dollar to the lowest level in five years. And at the beginning of the week was the purchasing managers ‘ index for the industry, which was the lowest value since the middle of 2012 – that reinforced Worries that the ailing economy of the country a hard landing are to be expected.

In the hope that the markets prior to this weekend’s beginning of the new year to calm down, the Chinese Central Bank, the Yuan last supported. But the question remains: In which direction is China’s economy? And investors interested in primarily: Where is China’s currency?

Betting against the Yuan

According to information from the Wall Street Journal, several US-American hedge Fund has already begun to large sums of money to the case of the Yuan in bets. Kyle Bass, founder of Hayman Capital Management, has 85 percent of the managed money business invested, “the pay off will be when the Yuan and the Hong Kong Dollar in the next three years lose their value”, according to the newspaper. Bass expect that the Yuan at this time by up to 40 percent will fall.

George Soros

Even Investment legend George Soros has confirmed, against the Yuan and other Asian currencies to bet on. Soros did in 1992 a fortune of it, against the British pound to speculate. For China “a hard landing virtually inevitable,” said Soros at the world economic forum in Davos two weeks ago.

Soros and Bass hope, with your statements of support for their course against the Yuan. Because the more such bets are placed, the greater will be the pressure on the currency. Alone in the last half of the year China’s foreign reserves to $ 500 billion (458 billion Euro) has shrunk.

A powerful opponent

But the Central Bank still sitting on 3.3 trillion US dollars. As soon as you parts of these reserves are sold, will weaken the Dollar and strengthen the Yuan. China’s politicians are confident that with these immense reserves, speculators like Soros to keep at a distance. “Against China’s currency in the war? Haha!” – this was then also the headline in the Auslandsausgabe of Renmin Ribao, the mouthpiece of the Communist party.

“Many in the market still believe that China its currency to further depreciate,” says Gary Cohn, President and managing Director of Goldman Sachs, in Davos. “But we believe the devaluation will be very slow and planned run. It is not like in Switzerland, over night, the Währungsbindung has been abandoned.”

In January 2015 had the Swiss Central Bank the binding of the franc to the Euro solved. For the Central Bank, it was too expensive, the price of the Swiss franc artificially low to keep. The rose by up to 30 percent.

In China, now could be the exact opposite happen: The economy is in the last year to a 6.9 percent growth – the lowest value since 25 years. Without the Intervention of the Central Bank would of the Yuan against the Dollar may have more to lose value. Some experts argue now that a weak Yuan is in the interest of China, because it makes exports cheaper and the economy is stimulated.

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Soon there will be wars to currencies?

“But the Chinese Central Bank has recently not only on the exchange rate of Yuan and dollars focused”, says Fang Xinghai, a member of the steering Committee for finances and Economics of the Central Committee. “In the past, China had against the Dollar, a gliding parity is sought,” said Xinghai in Davos. This is a relatively fixed exchange rate only occasionally in small increments adjusted.

“Now, we are working against a basket of currencies,” added Fang. “We won’t tell just like that, we mean this seriously and do that too.” It will seek out the Yuan-course against several currencies in a certain balance to keep, especially the major trading partners of China: US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Euro and South Korean Won.

The Chinese currency was “against this basket of currencies are very stable; not only now, but in the last few months,” said Christine Lagarde, head of the International monetary Fund (IMF).

“Given the large reserves and buffers” could be the China’s big challenges “without another master if it is the right decision”, said Lagarde confident.

Chinese politicians-deserved recognition for their way to an economic order more on domestic consumption is based, said Ray Dalio, founder and Chairman of Bridgewater Associates. The US Investment firm currently manages 169 billion dollars.

In view of the paralyzing global economy, low interest rates and the loose monetary policies of many Central banks expect, however, he is more volatility in the currency markets, not less.

“Because rates of interest hardly room for manoeuvre, the exchange rate changed,” said Dalio at Davos. “And that suggests Währungskriege, not partnership and cooperation.”