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China Free Market Currency Convertibility Issue In SDR Deliberations

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Mark Melin
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As China’s currency, the renminbi, appears to coming ever closer to acceptance in the International Monetary Fund’s elite Special Drawing Rights currency basket, a Goldman Sachs report provides a basic definition of the issue and then points to mechanics driving successful admission into the reserve currency club. But a contentious political point regarding currency manipulation, mentioned last night in the GOP debate, might come front and center to cause questioning of China’s assent into the currency basket.

 

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The Goldman Sachs Q&A-style report, written by researchers MK Tang, Yu Song and Maggie Wei, asks seven fundamental questions that...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.