PBoC Replaces SNB In FX Manipulation Department

Tyler Durden

RanSquawk report that according to “well-placed sources in Beijing” China is now buying EUR above 1.20 to stabilize the currency in advance of a G20 meeting later in June, per a previous agreement with the G20 members. This surely explains why the euro magically got vacuumed up by 60 pips in a manner of seconds as soon as a breach of 1.20 was imminent. Alas, as we pointed out previously, the half life of central bank interventions is now laughable: at some point interventions using fiat methods will have no impact whatsoever. On the other hand, all those who are short the market, and thus the euro, and in the process are facing the Fed, the ECB, the SNB (or not so much anymore), and now the PBoC, now have a whole new appreciation of the word “Sparta”

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