SHANGHAI: China’s central bank on Friday cut the yuan’s value against the greenback to its lowest in more than four years, only a week after the International Monetary Fund welcomed the unit into its elite reserve currency basket.

The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) set the daily reference at 6.4358 yuan to $1.0, the lowest since August 5, 2011, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System showed.

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