by Calculated Risk on 4/03/2010 04:10:00 PM
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Geithner: U.S. to Delay Currency Report
From Reuters: US Delays Decision on China Yuan Manipulation
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Saturday he was delaying an April 15 report on whether China manipulates its currency but pledged to press for a more flexible Chinese currency policy.This sure sounds like currency manipulation: "China's continued maintenance of a currency peg has required increasingly large volumes of currency intervention."
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Delaying the report -- something that happened regularly in prior administrations -- will push the decision to well after [Chinese President Hu Jintao]'s visit [to the U.S.].
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, April 3, 2010