John Greenwood News
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Hong Kong’s dollar peg shields the local economy from external shocks and it will be “many years” before a switch to a yuan link can be considered, according to John Greenwood, architect of the city’s exchange-rate system.
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Hong Kong must bear the pain of inflation to maintain the dollar peg because the Chinese city may be worse off with the alternatives, according to John Greenwood, architect of the city’s fixed-exchange-rate system.
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China will keep the yuan unchanged against the dollar until after June as exports have not returned to pre-financial crisis levels, according to John Greenwood, chief economist at Invesco Asset Management in London.
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John Greenwood, chief economist at Invesco Ltd. and architect of Hong Kong's exchange-rate system, says German bank deposits are growing more rapidly as southern Europe endures a "slow and relatively silent run" on banks. Greenwood talks with Bloomberg's Ken Prewitt on Bloomberg Radio's "Bloomberg - The First Word."
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China is “still a long way off” from making its currency fully convertible and until that happens Hong Kong can’t shift its dollar peg to the yuan, said John Greenwood, architect of the city’s exchange-rate system.
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Hedge-fund investor William Ackman won’t realize his bet that Hong Kong will amend its 29-year-old peg to the dollar, said K.C. Chan, the city’s secretary for financial services and the treasury.
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At least one European country will leave the euro zone as voters lose patience with austerity measures and bailout packages, according to Invesco Ltd.’s Chief Economist John Greenwood.
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Hong Kong’s growing demand for and use of yuan has ignited a debate over whether the local dollar’s 27- year peg to the greenback should be scrapped in favor of a link to China’s currency.
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The International Monetary Fund has lowered its forecast for economic growth in the U.S. amid rising commodity prices and downgraded its outlook for Japan after the earthquake and tsunami, a German government official said.
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