China's Yuan News
China`s yuan eased on Thursday but posted its biggest monthly gain at the month-end, in percentage terms, since the Chinese currency was revalued and taken off a fixed dollar peg in 2005.
Oil fell below $33 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since April 2004 as a fall in Chinese shares rattled investors already concerned by near-record production and massive stockpiles of unwanted crude and refined products.
The NSE Nifty felt the heat too as it cracked below the 7,600-mark as selling picked up across sectors.
The Special Drawing Right has been the International Monetary Fund`s "artificial currency" since 1969, used notably to calculate the interest rates it charges on loans to member states.
In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two percent from the central parity rate each trading day.
China`s vast and regular trade surpluses have seen it accumulate the world`s largest foreign exchange reserves, which stood at $3.73 trillion at the end of March.
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