Capital is exiting China at the fastest pace in more than seven years, piling extra pressure on the yuan.
The exodus has intensified in recent weeks as the nation’s teetering real estate industry casts a shadow over the world’s second-largest economy even after third-quarter growth surpassed economists’ expectations.
China’s currency regulator — the State Administration of Foreign Exchange — said Friday onshore banks sold a net $19.4 billion of foreign currencies to their clients last month, the most since November 2018, the height of the US-China trade war. Banks also sent a net $53.9 billion overseas on behalf of their customers, the biggest monthly outflow since January 2016, shortly after policymakers engineered a depreciation of the currency in August 2015.
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