China’s offshore currency continued to weaken against the dollar on Monday amid a world-wide stock selloff triggered by concerns about the broader impact of a potential collapse by major property developer Evergrande Group.
China’s offshore currency continued to weaken against the dollar on Monday amid a world-wide stock selloff triggered by concerns about the broader impact of a potential collapse by major property developer Evergrande Group 3333, -10.24%.
The offshore yuan USDCNH, -0.02%, which trades outside the country, weakened to as much as 6.4883 against the greenback. It’s lost around 0.9% since Wednesday, mostly because of a stronger dollar DXY, +0.03%. Meanwhile, investors flocked to other traditional havens, such as Treasurys.The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.78% skidded more than 700 points on Monday, as investors weighed the potential fallout from looming debts coming due at Evergrande.
See: Evergrande fears send stock market tumbling: What investors need to know about China’s teetering property giant “China’s Evergrande is causing a lot of angst these days, but the moves in the offshore yuan are a little more contained than might be expected,” said Brad Bechtel, global head of foreign exchange at Jefferies in New York. The offshore yuan could weaken even further to 6.50 against the dollar — a level not seen since August — if angst around Evergrande grows, or could strengthen back to 6.40 or 6.35 if markets stabilize, he said.
“A lot depends on how the Evergrande situation resolves itself,” he said via phone on Monday, adding that he doesn’t expect the People’s Bank of China to intervene in currency markets. “I don’t expect it to be a financial crisis on a global scale, but there are still pockets of equity weakness out there.”
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