IMF hints at including the renminbi in its SDR list
The Dollar Business Bureau The war against the US dollar’s supremacy seems to be all set for another major battle with even the IMF endorsing China’s push to include the renminbi in the list of currencies in which assets can be held under the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). “While undervaluation of the renminbi was a major factor causing large imbalances in the past, our assessment is that the substantial real effective appreciation over the past year has brought the exchange rate to a level that is no longer undervalued,” IMF’s first deputy managing director David Lipton said recently in Beijing. While Lipton didn’t openly claim that the IMF is ready to include the renminbi in the SDR list, many ...
