PBOC Stifles Yuan’s Growth, Affect Recovery and Boost Bitcoin

PBOC Stifles Yuan’s Growth, Affect Recovery and Boost Bitcoin

The PBOC's move to control yuan may further strengthen Bitcoin while the country's economy weakens. Bitcoin recently ended its price rally rather abruptly after the Chinese yuan improved its performance for a short period. While many resorted to panic selling with the hopes of yuan’s continued improvements, it hasn’t turned quite the way they had expected. Thanks to the meddling of People’s Bank of China, the currency’s gains were short-lived. According to various financial media outlets, the actions of PBOC to set the yuan midpoint at 6.9262 as against the previous week’s 6.8668 is an....


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