Thursday's reference rate was the strongest for the onshore yuan since mid July of 2018

  • Onshore yuan just barely weaker at the mid rate setting today

In Open Market Operations

  • PBOC inject 80bn yuan through 14-day reverse repos today

net 80bn injection

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Coming up from China soon (0145GMT):

Caixin manufacturing PMI from China for January

  • expected 49.6, prior 49.7

Yesterday we got the official PMIs for January