Geopolitical and macroeconomic headwinds could blow harder in 2025
The Chinese renminbi should steadily weaken against the US dollar, and struggle against other currencies such as the Australian dollar, Japanese yen, and euro over the next few quarters. In our judgement, the pricing-in and enacting-of US President-elect Trump’s trade policies will likely see a greater risk premium attached to the yuan, given the economic headwinds the protectionist measures may create for an already structurally-unbalanced Chinese economy, which has stumbled through its post-COVID recovery. There’s a lot more to China’s exports than the USShare of China’s goods exports, %December 2013 – October 2024 Headwinds could increase as policymakers attempt to...