A sharp depreciation of the renminbi this week took the currency to the edge of the trading band that the PBOC has been holding steady since Donald Trump's election. The PBOC is likely to ramp-up its intervention to slow the pace of depreciation in the near term. But if the large tariffs that Trump has threatened do come into force, we think that the People's Bank will allow the renminbi to depreciate to 8/$.
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