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FX reserves (Jan.)

China’s foreign exchange reserves are now worth less than $3trn for the first time since 2011. That said, they remain sufficiently large not to warrant any immediate concerns over the sustainability of exchange rate intervention by the People’s Bank, particularly given that capital outflows appear to have eased recently.

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