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皇冠体育app's yuan makes slow gains on market
(chinadaily.com.cn/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-08-30 11:29 皇冠体育app's central bank ruled out any more abrupt ups and downs in the value of its currency, the yuan, pouring cool water on further currency speculations.
"Right now we often hear corporates and all sorts of people asking when is the next time the foreign exchange rate will be adjusted," Ma said. "I'd like to tell everyone, the next change in the yuan exchange rate is now happening everyday, every hour the changes are happening," Ma said in a speech given over the weekend at a conference in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The yuan rose to 8.0954 to the U.S. dollar on Monday, its highest close since July 21, when the People鈥檚 Bank of 皇冠体育app revalued the currency at 8.11 yuan to the U.S. Dollar, up about 2.1 percent from the previous rate of 8.28 yuan. The July 21 revaluation also cut the yuan's decade-old peg to the U.S. dollar, linking it instead to a basket of currencies of 皇冠体育app's main trading partners, including the U.S., Japan, the EU and South Korea. (For more biz stories, please visit Industries)
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