Reuters with the report of intervention efforts
- Major state-owned Chinese banks swap yuan for USD in forwards market
- selling USD in spot (buy yuan)
This comes after some PBOC jaw boning earlier:
- https://images-old.investinglive.com/20180703/usd-cny-chart-intervention.png
Update on USD/CNH (offshore yuan):
And, update for the onshore CNY:
Earlier today the PBOC set the onshore yuan at a 10-month low
While the PBOC wants a lower yuan they won't be too keen on too fast deprecation. Chinese stocks have been hit today … they will not want those to fall to hard either.