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Time to set up US-China forex swap agreement
Published Wed, Feb 3, 2016 · 09:50 PM
IN the incomplete architecture of the developing multi-currency reserve system, one key element is missing: a swap line between the US and China.
It is time the world's two largest economies filled this lacuna by negotiating a Federal Reserve-People's Bank of China (Fed-PBOC) swap agreement in each other's currencies, with the aim of facilitating dollar and renminbi liquidity on international financial markets.
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