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A very narrow band that keeps moving up is a float. If you say movement of only a little over 2% since they abandonned the peg is the same thing as a peg we're not speaking the same language. Every indication is that the yuan will continue to slowly increase in value for quite a while before the Chinese change tack. And they are no longer looking only to the dollar.
According to your numbers, what is the percentage appreciation of the yuan against the dollar in 2006?????
Go to xe.com. I watch daily, same as watching nymex or checking the weather.
Very wise of the Chinese; they set their currency in motion only enough to be able to point out it isn't, technically, fixed. Is it floating? Not compared to the rest of the world's floating currencies. Is it pegged? Technically no, since it is moving. Heavily managed to move just enough to shut up protectionists in the US? Working so far...
You got that exactly right.
We can argue all day over the semantics of the yuan's 'flexible trading band', but in the eyes of FX traders, economists, hedge fund managers, the US Treasury, the Fed, and the world's central bankers, China's currency is to all intents and purposes pegged to the dollar.