Salient to Investors:

Ding Zhijie at the University of International Business and Economics said:

  • China has noticeably reduced purchases of dollars from local banks to allow commercial banks to trade among themselves, which may cap China’s foreign-exchange reserves and consequently its demand for US government debt.
  • China’s official foreign-exchange reserves will be stable or even fall slightly in the coming years
  • Other countries’ buying of Treasuries has more than made up for the drop from China.
  • China has accumulated a third of the world’s total foreign-exchange reserves.
  • The PBOC is trying to keep the yuan rate basically stable through the daily price-fixing.

Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/china-s-u-s-debt-purchases-seen-limited-former-adviser-says.html