U.S. calls Vietnam, Switzerland currency manipulators, watching Japan

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday labeled Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators for the first time while keeping Japan and China on the so-called monitoring list of trading partners whose currency practices merit close attention.India, Thailand and Taiwan were added to the watch list of economies suspected of deliberately devaluing their currencies against the dollar, making it a total of 10 major U.S. trading partners now being monitored by the department over the issue, according to the semiannual report to Congress on foreign exchange policies.The report was released j…READ FULL ARTICLE