Devaluation Stunner: China Has Dumped $100 Billion In Treasurys In The Past Two Weeks

• So, who is buying all these US treasuries? The collapse of the oil price from US$100 to US$40/barrel means that demand for USD has also collapsed. It also implies that demand for US treasuries has also collapsed. If you cannot smell a rat’s ass when it is right in your nose: You are an IDIOT! I mean that affectionately, of course?!
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• Devaluation Stunner: China Has Dumped $100 Billion In Treasurys In The Past Two Weeks
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com  
  On August 11, China devalued its currency, and in the subsequent 3 days the onshore Yuan, the CNY, tumbled by some 4% against the dollar. Then, as if by magic, the CNY stabilized when China started intervening massively, only this time not through the fixing, but in the actual FX market.
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  This means that while China has previously been dumping reserves as a matter of FX policy, after August 11 it was intervening directly in the FX market, with the intervention said to really pick up after the FOMC Minutes on August 19, the same day the market finally topped out, and has tumbled into a correction since then. The result was the same: massive FX reserve liquidations to defend the currency one way or the other.
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  And yet something curious emerges when comparing the traditionally tight, and inverse, relationship between the S&P and the Treausry long-end: the drop in yields has not been anywhere near as profound as the tumble in stocks. In fact, the 30 Year is wider now than where it was the day China announced the Yuan devaluation.
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  There you have it: in the past two weeks alone China has sold a gargantuan $106 (or more) billion in US paper just as a result of the change in the currency regime!
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  But wait, there’s more: recall that one months ago we posted that “China’s Record Dumping Of US Treasuries Leaves Goldman Speechless” in which we reported that China has sold some $107 billion in Treasurys since the start of 2015.
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  When we did that article, we too were quite shocked at that number. However, we – just like Goldman – are absolutely speechless to find out that China has sold as much in Treasurys in the past 2 weeks, over $100 billion, as it has sold in the entire first half of the year!
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