Full-Blown Currency War Can No Longer Be Ruled Out, Pimco Says

Weakness in Yuan Won’t Be Engineered by Government, Says UBS’s Kapteyn
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A full-blown currency war where major central banks and governments, including the U.S., deliberately weaken their currencies can no longer be ruled out, Pacific Investment Management Co.’s global economic adviser Joachim Fels wrote in a report.

The view is in line with a rising chorus of Wall Street analysts who warn that President Donald Trump’s repeated complaints about the foreign exchange practices of key trading partners heightens the risk of U.S. intervention to weaken the dollar.