| Long pegged as a currency manipulator, China might be about to get a big stamp of foreign-exchange credibility. The International Monetary Fund is reportedly close to calling the Chinese yuan fairly valued. That’s something that hasn’t happened in more than a decade, and it would come despite opposition from the White House, according to the Wall Street Journal.
China’s foreign-exchange reserves are falling, a signal that it’s not intervening as much to keep its currency weak to bolster exports. Its holdings of US government debt are falling, too, which shows that whatever US dollar reserves it does have aren’t being parked in Treasury debt to the extent that they used to be. In fact, Japan recently has overtaken China as the leading foreign holder of US debt...............................................Full Article: Source
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