{"id":19916,"date":"2018-10-26T16:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19916"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:23:21","slug":"china-tells-short-sellers-it-will-defend-its-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19916","title":{"rendered":"China tells short-sellers it will defend its currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>China is warning speculators betting against its currency to prepare for a fight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The yuan on Friday slid close to its lowest point since the global financial crisis in 2008. But it recouped its losses after combative comments from a Chinese central bank official.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;For those who are trying to short the renminbi, we fought hand to hand a few years ago so we are very familiar with each other,&#8221; Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People&#8217;s Bank of China, said at a news conference in Beijing. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s still fresh in our memory.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)China is warning speculators betting against its currency to prepare for a fight.The yuan on Friday slid close to its lowest point since the global financial crisis in 2008. But it recouped its losses after combative comments from a Chinese central bank official.&#8221;For those who are trying to short the renminbi, we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}