{"id":887,"date":"2018-08-01T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/?p=887"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T08:04:00","slug":"dollar-leans-on-yuan-aussie-amid-u-s-tariff-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/dollar-leans-on-yuan-aussie-amid-u-s-tariff-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar leans on yuan, Aussie amid U.S. tariff threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>\u00a0<\/span>The U.S. dollar edged up against the yuan and growth-leveraged currencies on Wednesday after a source familiar with the Trump administration&#8217;s plans said the White House was about to propose higher tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as a survey showed China&#8217;s factory sector grew at the slowest pace in eight months in July as export orders declined yet again.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar added 0.4 percent to 6.8306 yuan<span>\u00a0<\/span>&lt;cnh=&gt;after reports circulated President Donald Trump would propose tariffs of 25 percent, instead of 10 percent, in an announcement that could come as early as Wednesday.&lt;\/cnh=&gt;<\/p>\n<p>The yuan has now fallen for four months in a row and China&#8217;s central bank on Wednesday set the currency at its weakest since May last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The U.S. dollar edged up against the yuan and growth-leveraged currencies on Wednesday after a source familiar with the Trump administration&#8217;s plans said the White House was about to propose higher tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports. The news came as a survey showed China&#8217;s factory sector grew at<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/dollar-leans-on-yuan-aussie-amid-u-s-tariff-threats\/\"> 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-887","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\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forexvarsity.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}