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G7 presses China over renminbi

By Chris Giles, Krishna Guha and Eoin Callan in Washington

Published: October 19 2007 08:31 | Last updated: October 20 2007 02:46

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s top economic powers on Friday night raised the pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate, with its most strongly worded statement yet.

The Group of Seven on Friday night said: “We welcome China’s decision to increase the flexibility of its currency, but in view of its rising current account surplus and domestic inflation, we stress its need to allow an accelerated appreciation of its effective exchange rate”.

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