MarketWatch: “It’s been 10 years since China ended the yuan’s fixed exchange rate”
(Editorial note: China continues to restrict its currency to a “trading band” rather than an inflexible peg.) On July 21, 2005 Chinese monetary policy makers surprised the country’s trade partners by revaluing the yuan 2.1% higher against the dollar, ending a fixed exchange-rate regime that angered officials in the U.S., Europe and Japan and…
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