While the currency peg is not indestructible, investors should not underestimate the extent to which it is part of the city’s raison d’être

For speculators and critics of the peg, this shows that the disconnect between a US-led monetary policy cycle and a mainland China-driven economic cycle has become untenable.

What is the Hong Kong Dollar Peg?

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