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    From bnnbloomberg.ca

    The U.S. Treasury Department designated Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators in the Trump administration’s final foreign-exchange policy report. The agency stopped short of labeling China a currency manipulator and instead kept the world’s second-largest economy on a watchlist. The Treasury urged China to “improve transparency” in its currency management, especially of its central bank’s relationship with state-owned banks. “Treasury will follow up on its findings with respect to Vietnam and Switzerland to work toward eliminating practices that create unfair advantages for foreign ... (full story)

Who made the U.S. Treasury the world police? Didn't this "regulators" do enough damage to the whole world in 2008?
Ok can we have a discussion on what constitutes manipulation?

I "think" that everyone can agree that negative interest rates are manipulative - hence the Swiss franc.

But what about twitter? How about all these officials who tweet about Brexit, or tweet about stimulus is one...stimulus is off....

What constitutes manipulation?

Second part - what is the consequences of manipulation?

Thought?

Oh and before anyone else mentions it, yes by "my definition" on the biggest manipulators would have been the King of tweets - Trump; at least the forex market won't have to worry about him much longer.
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