How sustainable is this CNH funding squeeze? – Nomura

By FXStreet FXStreet (Bali) – The Asia FX Strategy Team at Nomura does not expect authorities to sustain the tight CNH liquidity conditions for a prolonged period to limit long USD/CNH positioning. Below are several reasons why.

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1- If the objective of the recent CNH intervention was to bring spot USD/CNH back towards onshore spot USD/CNY, then this has been achieved

2 – Intervention in recent history has also been temporary. Note that on 8 September the PBoC took action to narrow the spread between CNH/CNY (spot spread rose to around 1000pips) by both intervening in the offshore market and announcing a relaxation of requirements for multinational corporations in China to remit CNH back onshore.

3 – Deteriorating liquidity could lead to more cautious lending. Currently, we do not expect the CNH liquidity squeeze to affect interbank market liquidity or HK corporate activity given that most local bank loans are denominated in HKD. However, continued very high CNH funding costs at the margin reflect deteriorating liquidity and could result in more cautious lending

4 – If the current onshore-offshore yield gap remains elevated this could attract some onshore deposits to migrate offshore. Indeed, when the funding situation eventually stabilizes, we expect more demand for …read more

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