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about 1% over the past few weeks and expected to continue to slide ahead of china's national people's congress next week. tommy shea, economist research and strategy at ocbc bank joins us now. tommy to what extent is this a warmup our prelude for the widening trade of the yuan? >> right now we have a lot of speculation in the market. right now we have seen the gap between the yuan fixing in the onshore market has been closed so next question is when china's going to widen the trading bands. so we think it's likely for us to, i mean for the next few months likely for us to see china to widen the trading band. we know next week we are going to have the national people's congress which reform will be one of the key focus in the congress so i think i won't be a surprise for china to widen the trading ban during the congress meeting next week. >> are the pbc trying to change the view that the renminbi will appreciate against the dollar and that encourages -- do they assume because there's that assumption in the market it encourages speculative inflows? are they now saying we don't want the speculative inflows so we

your oldest one and you know tommy and tokyo shares a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am. us secretary of state is in beijing apparently seeking china's help in keeping your reaction to. people living in wide areas of japan are once again struggling to blast of snow that dog more than fifty seven meters in some parts and some communities across japan are helping dementia sufferers. my opening cafes designs for their deeds. us secretary of state john kerry is now visiting beijing as part of a four nation tour he's there to discuss north korea and other key issues with chinese leaders. terry flew to the chinese capital from south korea. even with foreign minister won the after a meeting with president she's in pain. we know that going for the year the car. progress in dubai i'm over that. there are differences but it is. but too late. we were off. i mean i told both our countries can expand cooperation in various fields resolve differences and disputes properly and fully implement a modern relationship between china and the us. observers believe kerry is likely to have massed his chinese hosts to use their influence on north korea to ke

your oldest one and you know tommy and tokyo shares a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am. us secretary of state is in beijing apparently seeking china's help in keeping your reaction to. people living in wide areas of japan are once again struggling to blast of snow that dog more than fifty seven meters in some parts and some communities across japan are helpingem