Huge revaluation again for the onshore yuan against the USD. The CNY is at its strongest now since mid-November of 2015

A bit of earlier news from China ... PBOC Governor (and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Vice Chairman) Zhou Xiaochuan has not been reappointed to the national committee of the CPPCC .

  • Zhou will be retiring this month
  • This was announced many months ago, so its not new news
  • Zhou has run the Bank since 2002!

PBOC to skip Open Market operations today

  • In a statement the Bank says targeted RRR cut to offset reverse repo maturities

In skipping OMOs its a it's a net 120 bn yuan drain via OMOs