Robust demand for China’s government bonds is helping Beijing to raise funds inexpensively to support growth in its fragile economy. Yet a relentless plunge in yields is creating entrenched expectations the People’s Republic is becoming a low-interest-rate country and is undermining President Xi Jinping’s desire for a strong yuan.
China left its benchmark lending rates unchanged Monday, as Beijing contends with a weakening yuan while awaiting policy clues from the incoming Donald Trump administration. The People's Bank of China held the 1-year loan prime rate at 3.1%, and the 5-year ...
The economic hardware/software debate about China just got more complicated. Before DeepSeek flipped the script on the artificial intelligence game, many economists worried China had way too much of the former and not enough of the latter.
Just days after beginning his second term in the White House last week, Trump said he would impose a 10 percent levy on all Chinese products from February 1, while leaving the door open for negotiations.
Global investors who have historically bet on China's economic development are ditching grand narratives of long-term prosperity and instead adopting more modest views that see the market as an opportunity for smaller bets with quicker payoffs.
The question of how far and quickly the yuan will fall depends on Beijing’s resolve in countering Donald Trump’s tariffs with stimulus measures.
BEIJING, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Zou Lan, head of the monetary policy department at the People's Bank of China (PBOC), will be promoted to deputy governor of the central bank, two sources with ...
Equities rally as authorities set explicit investment targets for mutual funds and state-owned insurance companies
The report profiles key players in the Chinese Fintech market, including Ant Group, ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co., Du Xiaoman Financial (Beijing) Co., Tencent Holdings, Lufax Holding, JD Technology Group,
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Monday it conducted 1.7 trillion yuan of outright reverse repurchase agreements in January. The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said the repo operations aimed to "keep banking system liquidity reasonably ample". The tenors of the repos for the month were 3 and 6 months.
China left key lending rates unchanged on Monday for the third straight month as the country seeks to maintain currency stability.
China's central bank and top securities regulator have vowed to ramp up supportive policy tools to shore up the country's capital market. The remarks were made at a recent seminar on stock buyback and repurchase loaning program,