currency manipulator

Thailand is perhaps under greater risk of scrutiny by the US than Singapore or Malaysia, says the CGS-CIMB team.

SINGAPORE (Aug 12): The surprise announcement by the US Treasury labelling China a “currency manipulator” raises a lot of questions. The answers to two of them in particular shed light on how trade tensions are likely to play out between the two large

(Aug 6): The Trump administration formally labelled China a currency manipulator, further escalating its trade war with Beijing after the country’s central bank allowed the yuan to fall in retaliation for new US tariffs.

(May 29): The Trump administration again refrained from labelling China a currency manipulator on Tuesday, a decision that leaves one of the president’s campaign promises unfulfilled but avoids further escalation in the trade war between the world’s t

WASHINGTON (Oct 18): The Treasury Department stopped short of declaring China a currency manipulator in its semi-annual report on foreign-exchange rates, averting an escalation of a trade war while serving notice that the US will closely watch the yuan af

(Oct 11): Wall Street is bracing for the prospect that the US uses this month’s semiannual foreign-exchange report to label China a currency manipulator, escalating the trade standoff between the two nations at a time when rising bond yields are already

WASHINGTON (April 17): President Donald Trump explained the decision to not label China a currency manipulator, which reversed a promise he made during the election campaign, as a function of receiving Beijing’s help in reining in North Korea.

WASHINGTON (April 13): President Donald Trump said he won’t brand China a currency manipulator, retreating from core campaign promise, though he argued that a strong dollar is hampering the ability of American firms to compete.

WASHINGTON (April 7): President Donald Trump began his first-ever meeting with the leader of the world’s second-largest economy on Thursday, the country he blames for stealing millions of US jobs and enabling North Korea’s march toward a nuclear missi

SINGAPORE (July 26): Asia will be on the “front line” if Donald Trump follows through on his main campaign pledges.