Hong Kong Monetary Authority holds fire as currency slumps to red line for the first time

It stood at 7.8499 at 5:30pm. Hong Kong’s de facto central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), said it will not necessarily step in to prop up the currency. The city’s dollar, pegged at 7.8 per US dollar since October 1983, with the trading …
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