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The renminbi - the growth of a global currency

Geoff Riley

30th July 2015

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This short video from the Financial Times focuses on the rise of the renminbi as a global currency: it is now the fifth most traded currency in the world but still only accounts for 2% of the global total currency flows.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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