The U.S. Department of Defense and the Treasury Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment
The order does not authorize securities transactions with subsidiaries of banned Chinese military companies
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A group of 16 senators, along with leaders of a group of House centrists, have engaged with the White House on the aid bill.
Yellen will take the lead in the effort to win Congressional support for Biden's proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, and increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
Mounting coronavirus cases and caution ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting this week also dulled appetite for risk
As head of the Treasury, she'll be tasked with shepherding President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan through Congress and overseeing its execution
Yellen's nomination was approved 26-0 in the evenly split committee, with concerns expressed by Republicans about President Joe Biden's ambitious plans
Yellen's Republican predecessor, Steven Mnuchin, was not confirmed until three weeks after Trump's inauguration
Yellen said she would work to implement Biden's promise to "oppose any and all the attempts by foreign countries to artificially manipulate currency values to gain an unfair advantage in trade"
Foreign exchange analysts had broadly anticipated the U.S. Treasury designation for the two countries
The Treasury secretary nominee will make clear at a Senate confirmation hearing that the United States does not seek a weaker dollar
Gold prices fell on Thursday as US Treasury yields and the dollar rebounded, while investors awaited details on incoming US President Joe Biden's coronavirus stimulus proposal
The US Treasury has, while branding Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators, added India, Taiwan and Thailand to its 'Monitoring List'
Others on the list include China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia
The reason why India was put on the half yearly monitorin list along with nine others, was that it had a 'material' current account surplus and engaged in 'persistent, one-sided intervention'
Having removed the manipulator label from China in January, the Treasury urged the world's second-largest economy to "improve transparency" in its currency management
The United States is facing economic crises again and it is essential to move with urgency, Treasury Secretary-nominee Janet Yellen said
In Yellen, Biden will have a battle-tested policy maker who can draw on her nearly two decades at the Fed to help rebuild an economy in dire need of government cash and confidence
US President Donald Trump's administration has expressed national security concerns over the app, claiming it could be used for Chinese espionage and threatening to ban it