Chinese yuan per US dollar at 6.6912, lowest since June 2022
A daily reading from Tiingo forex data, compared with the full history of the series.
Snapshot
The yuan per US dollar exchange rate was 6.6912 yuan per US dollar on Oct 15, 2026, the lowest reading since Jun 24, 2022, more than 4 years ago.
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What We Know
The previous reading was 6.6928 yuan per US dollar on Oct 14, 2026, so the latest is unchanged. A year earlier it was 7.1267 yuan per US dollar; it is down 6.1% since. The lowest reading in data back to Jan 1, 2020 is 6.3094 yuan per US dollar on Feb 28, 2022.
Octans View
This is a level record for the series, not a forecast: it says the yuan per US dollar exchange rate is lower than at any point in more than 4 years of readings, and nothing about where it goes next.
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Limits. The comparison uses published readings, not intraday levels, and only the history this source carries. Method and source. Octans Research computes the record from the full history of Tiingo series USDCNY; the running page "Where the yuan per US dollar exchange rate stands versus its history" tracks the series every day. No model wrote this text.
Sources
- [1]Tiingo — Market data sourced by Tiingo
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Where the yuan per US dollar exchange rate stands versus its history
The yuan per US dollar exchange rate was 6.6912 yuan per US dollar on Oct 16, 2026, in the lower third of its 12 month range. Updated when Tiingo forex data publishes a new reading.
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