Amid Trade War Talk, Hong Kong Dollar Continues To Slide To New Lows

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Mark Melin
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The Hong Kong “dollar peg,” mandating that its currency value float in relative tandem with the US dollar, has weakened to the low end of the range. Some analysts view the recent move to its weakest level in 33 years, which continuously occurred for the last six trading sessions, as a sign the Hong Kong / US dollar relationship is ending. The concerns come as the US is engaged in talk of trade tariffs on aluminum and steel with worries that a more significant trade war might be looming. The moves come as the Chinese Yuan has increasingly become a…

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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.