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China Set to Appreciate Currency
May 23, 2010 · Posted in NEWS (http://www.theiraqidinar.com/category/news-announcements/)
TIDBIT: Originally posted by Miskebam at Just4Dinar. Thank you! LINK (http://just4dinar.forum-motion.com/foreign-currencies-f63/china-set-to-appreciate-currency-t4009.htm) – DD
Sunday ,May 23,2010
Saleswoman Li Li stood in a booth at the Canton trade fair, surrounded by luggage decorated with floral, leopard and news headline prints like “credit crunch” and “economic disaster looms.”
She pointed to one that said “dollar exchange rate” with a chuckle. “We’re all worried about the exchange rate,” said Li, whose Globalway Luggage Co. is based in the eastern port city of Ningbo.
“If the exchange rate changes, it will really eat into our profits. It’s basic economics: our products will be more expensive overseas and less competitive,” Li said.
After nearly two years of keeping its currency stable against the U.S. dollar to help exporters like Li weather the global financial crisis, hopes had revived overseas that Beijing might relax the dollar peg soon. But as the European debt crisis deepens, China is signaling it will hold back on any changes — a stance likely to complicate high level talks next week with the U.S.
The latest, most authoritative comment on that came from Commerce Minister Chen Deming, who told reporters while visiting Austria this week that Beijing intends to keep the yuan stable. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner confirmed that the contentious currency issue is bound to be on next week’s agenda.
China’s Commerce minister Chen Deming addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, May 21, 2010
“I think it is, of course, China’s decision about what to do with the exchange rate — they’re a sovereign country,” Geithner said. “But I think it’s enormously in their interest to move, over time, to let the exchange rate reflect market forces, and I’m confident that they will do what’s in their interest,” he said while visiting Boeing and other exporters in Washington state.
REMEMBER THE ARTICLE THAT I PUT ON HERE A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO. . . GEITHNER WANTS THIS DONE BEFORE THE END OF JUNE!
LINK TO JUST4DINAR ARTICLE (http://just4dinar.forum-motion.com/off-topic-f18/china-and-us-look-to-close-world-s-biggest-trade-gap-t3897.htm)
China reported a $196 billion global trade surplus last year, adding to pressure to tilt its economy toward greater reliance on domestic demand.
With the Greek debt crisis has come a weaker euro, and a relatively stronger dollar-pegged yuan, “which should reduce the volume of complaints from Brussels on Beijing’s exchange rate policy,” says Tom Orlik, an analyst in Beijing for Stone & McCarthy Research Associates.
Even if the euro’s drop to near four-year lows against the dollar alleviates pressure from European trading partners, President Barack Obama has vowed to take a tougher line with Beijing over its controls on the yuan as the U.S. heads toward crucial mid-term elections.
Opinions vary, but economists say that depending on how it is measured the yuan is undervalued by up to 40 percent against the dollar. Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates that bringing the yuan’s value up by that amount could generate some 1.2 million U.S. jobs.
That would go a long way toward meeting Obama’s recent pledge to create 2 million jobs, while doubling exports over the next five years.
Chinese policymakers insist that adjustments in the yuan’s value will have little direct impact on the trade balance with the United States, and some fret that the yuan’s nearly 15 percent gain against the euro is already too great a burden.
“A revaluation would not bring any good to our economy, as our exporters already are under heavy cost pressures. It would be dangerous to revalue,” said Yi Xianrong, an economist at the government-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
Yet, a growing number of Chinese experts argue that Beijing does need to move faster on long-standing pledges to loosen exchange rate controls, for the sake of its own economy. By clamping down, they say, China is limiting its options at a time when the economy appears on the brink of overheating, expanding nearly 12 percent in January-March while housing prices surged to record levels.
“A more flexible currency rate will do good to both ourselves and the world economy,” says Mao Yushi, a prominent reformist economist. “It is a difficult process though.”
(Continúa en Parte 2)
China Set to Appreciate Currency
May 23, 2010 · Posted in NEWS (http://www.theiraqidinar.com/category/news-announcements/)
TIDBIT: Originally posted by Miskebam at Just4Dinar. Thank you! LINK (http://just4dinar.forum-motion.com/foreign-currencies-f63/china-set-to-appreciate-currency-t4009.htm) – DD
Sunday ,May 23,2010
Saleswoman Li Li stood in a booth at the Canton trade fair, surrounded by luggage decorated with floral, leopard and news headline prints like “credit crunch” and “economic disaster looms.”
She pointed to one that said “dollar exchange rate” with a chuckle. “We’re all worried about the exchange rate,” said Li, whose Globalway Luggage Co. is based in the eastern port city of Ningbo.
“If the exchange rate changes, it will really eat into our profits. It’s basic economics: our products will be more expensive overseas and less competitive,” Li said.
After nearly two years of keeping its currency stable against the U.S. dollar to help exporters like Li weather the global financial crisis, hopes had revived overseas that Beijing might relax the dollar peg soon. But as the European debt crisis deepens, China is signaling it will hold back on any changes — a stance likely to complicate high level talks next week with the U.S.
The latest, most authoritative comment on that came from Commerce Minister Chen Deming, who told reporters while visiting Austria this week that Beijing intends to keep the yuan stable. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner confirmed that the contentious currency issue is bound to be on next week’s agenda.
China’s Commerce minister Chen Deming addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, May 21, 2010
“I think it is, of course, China’s decision about what to do with the exchange rate — they’re a sovereign country,” Geithner said. “But I think it’s enormously in their interest to move, over time, to let the exchange rate reflect market forces, and I’m confident that they will do what’s in their interest,” he said while visiting Boeing and other exporters in Washington state.
REMEMBER THE ARTICLE THAT I PUT ON HERE A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO. . . GEITHNER WANTS THIS DONE BEFORE THE END OF JUNE!
LINK TO JUST4DINAR ARTICLE (http://just4dinar.forum-motion.com/off-topic-f18/china-and-us-look-to-close-world-s-biggest-trade-gap-t3897.htm)
China reported a $196 billion global trade surplus last year, adding to pressure to tilt its economy toward greater reliance on domestic demand.
With the Greek debt crisis has come a weaker euro, and a relatively stronger dollar-pegged yuan, “which should reduce the volume of complaints from Brussels on Beijing’s exchange rate policy,” says Tom Orlik, an analyst in Beijing for Stone & McCarthy Research Associates.
Even if the euro’s drop to near four-year lows against the dollar alleviates pressure from European trading partners, President Barack Obama has vowed to take a tougher line with Beijing over its controls on the yuan as the U.S. heads toward crucial mid-term elections.
Opinions vary, but economists say that depending on how it is measured the yuan is undervalued by up to 40 percent against the dollar. Fred Bergsten of the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimates that bringing the yuan’s value up by that amount could generate some 1.2 million U.S. jobs.
That would go a long way toward meeting Obama’s recent pledge to create 2 million jobs, while doubling exports over the next five years.
Chinese policymakers insist that adjustments in the yuan’s value will have little direct impact on the trade balance with the United States, and some fret that the yuan’s nearly 15 percent gain against the euro is already too great a burden.
“A revaluation would not bring any good to our economy, as our exporters already are under heavy cost pressures. It would be dangerous to revalue,” said Yi Xianrong, an economist at the government-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.
Yet, a growing number of Chinese experts argue that Beijing does need to move faster on long-standing pledges to loosen exchange rate controls, for the sake of its own economy. By clamping down, they say, China is limiting its options at a time when the economy appears on the brink of overheating, expanding nearly 12 percent in January-March while housing prices surged to record levels.
“A more flexible currency rate will do good to both ourselves and the world economy,” says Mao Yushi, a prominent reformist economist. “It is a difficult process though.”
(Continúa en Parte 2)