Dealing somewhat of a blow to the Chinese yuan regime, and considered a small victory for US lawmakers, the International Monetary Fund announced today that it was to strengthen its exchange rate policy monitoring.
The dollar started to give back some of its gains last Friday when last month’s inflation data failed to support growing speculation of a possible rate hike from the Fed.
Yen’s weakness was due to the lingering after effects of Governor Fukui's non-committal stance on rate increases on Friday which suggested that the BOJ may hold rates at 50bp all the way through August.
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