China has been selling U.S. Treasuries

China has been selling U.S. Treasuries

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When will it be time to hedge this market?

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China’s increasingly frantic, increasingly dangerous game of financial markets Whac-A-Mole

China faces a depreciating currency, a bond market that has switched from rally to sell off, huge outflows of cash, and what looks like a resurgence of inflation. Fixing one of these problems alone would be a huge challenge to the People’s Bank. The combination leaves the central bank with a situation where fixing one problem may just make the others worse. Increasingly the People’s Bank looks like it is rushing from problem to problem, giving the crisis-of-day a whack and then rushing to figure out what’s likely to pop up next that will deserve a bash with the mallet.

Did the Trump-China trade war get hotter over night?

Did the Trump-China trade war get hotter over night?

Yesterday the director of Beijing’s National Development and Reform Commission’s price supervision bureau told the state-run China Daily that its investigators had found evidence that a U.S. carmaker has been telling its dealers to fix prices since 2014. Accusations like this can end in sizable fines and other penalties. You think that it’s just a coincidence that this charge comes after President-elect Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric about branding China a currency manipulator?