Yuan bears say this month’s rally shouldn’t be taken as a sign China’s great reversal in capital flows has finished. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warns that any further shock depreciation will only accelerate the exit.
Daiwa Capital Markets, which predicted the outflow risks back in 2014, says less than half of the US$3 trillion ($4.2 trillion) of dollar debt that ended up in China has been repaid. Commerzbank AG said record new yuan loans in January showed companies are raising money to repay more debt abroad. Corporate bond sales onshore have more than doubled this year, as offshore issuance in the greenback dropped about 30%. Goldman Sachs says there have been US$550 billion of outflows in the second half of 2015, and that every 1 percent yuan weakening risks US$100 billion more.
The yuan’s appreciation in the four years through 2013 prompted companies to borrow dollars offshore and use the money to profit from a strong currency and higher interest rates in China. The one-way bets began to fade in 2014 as the exchange rate to the dollar plunged the most since 1994. This month’s 0.9% rally hasn’t dissuaded analysts from forecasting a further 3.4% drop by year-end.
“We’re less than halfway done” in terms of carry trade unwinding, said Kevin Lai, chief economist for Asia excluding Japan at Daiwa. “My main focus is not about unwinding, but the reverse carry trade. People are taking fresh positions to sell the yuan. We’re talking about a massive deflationary scenario now, which is very bad for the market, economy, for everything.”
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Daiwa Capital Markets, which predicted the outflow risks back in 2014, says less than half of the US$3 trillion ($4.2 trillion) of dollar debt that ended up in China has been repaid. Commerzbank AG said record new yuan loans in January showed companies are raising money to repay more debt abroad. Corporate bond sales onshore have more than doubled this year, as offshore issuance in the greenback dropped about 30%. Goldman Sachs says there have been US$550 billion of outflows in the second half of 2015, and that every 1 percent yuan weakening risks US$100 billion more.
The yuan’s appreciation in the four years through 2013 prompted companies to borrow dollars offshore and use the money to profit from a strong currency and higher interest rates in China. The one-way bets began to fade in 2014 as the exchange rate to the dollar plunged the most since 1994. This month’s 0.9% rally hasn’t dissuaded analysts from forecasting a further 3.4% drop by year-end.
“We’re less than halfway done” in terms of carry trade unwinding, said Kevin Lai, chief economist for Asia excluding Japan at Daiwa. “My main focus is not about unwinding, but the reverse carry trade. People are taking fresh positions to sell the yuan. We’re talking about a massive deflationary scenario now, which is very bad for the market, economy, for everything.”
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