2018.08.0706:18:00UTC+00China's Forex Reserves Increase In July

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China's foreign exchange reserves increased in July, figures from People's Bank of China showed Tuesday.

Reserves rose by $5.82 billion to $3.12 trillion in July. Reserves were forecast to remain at $3.11 trillion.

More likely, the increase simply reflects valuation effects from a rise in the price of the foreign bonds held by the PBoC, Julian Evans-Pritchard, an economist at Capital Economics, said.

That said, today's figures do suggest that the PBoC probably did not deploy its FX reserves to defend the renminbi last month, the economist added.