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News Snapshot: (Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s “huge” foreign exchange reserves, about $440 billion, are enough to maintain the linked exchange rate system with the US dollar even as America’s rising interest rates lead to capital outflows, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan. Chan is the latest official to address the strength of the city’s reserves after Hayman Capital Management’s Kyle Bass wrote on Twitter a few days ago that the central bank’s reserves to defend the Hong Kong dollar were falling because of recent interventions to prop up its value. Bass claimed the reserves could be exhausted by the end...
