Treasury names Vietnam, Switzerland currency manipulators

The Treasury Department has named Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators and placed 10 other countries on its monitoring list, according to a semiannual report released on Wednesday. Treasury’s report on the macroeconomic and foreign exchange policies of major trading partners is required by law to be sent to Congress each April and October. Treasury’s last report came 11 months ago in January -- days before the U.S. and China signed a phase-one trade deal and the U.S. removed Beijing’s...