{"id":864,"date":"2018-07-20T06:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/?p=864"},"modified":"2018-07-20T06:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:34:18","slug":"yuan-slumps-dollar-on-defensive-after-trump-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/yuan-slumps-dollar-on-defensive-after-trump-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuan slumps, dollar on defensive after Trump comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The yuan slumped to a more than one year low on Friday while the dollar edged down against major peers after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed concern about the currency&#8217;s strength.<\/p>\n<p>The yuan fell after China&#8217;s central bank set the daily midpoint for onshore trading lower for a seventh straight day.<\/p>\n<p>Offshore yuan<span>\u00a0<\/span>&lt;cnh=d3&gt;dropped more than half a percent to as low as 6.8358 per dollar, its lowest level since June 27, 2017.&lt;\/cnh=d3&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Later the<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"aqPopupWrapper js-hover-me-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/currencies\/usd-cnh\" id=\"5b518232ec66f\" class=\"aqlink js-hover-me\" hoverme=\"aql\" data-pairid=\"961728\">offshore yuan<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>regained some losses to trade 0.4 percent down, at 6.8212 per dollar, as traders said major state banks bought the yuan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yuan slumped to a more than one year low on Friday while the dollar edged down against major peers after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed concern about the currency&#8217;s strength. The yuan fell after China&#8217;s central bank set the daily midpoint for onshore trading lower for a seventh straight<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/yuan-slumps-dollar-on-defensive-after-trump-comments\/\"> Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage","category-latest-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}