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.
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.
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.
Equities rally as authorities set explicit investment targets for mutual funds and state-owned insurance companies
Smaller banks face more asset quality deterioration in coming years, on top of earnings pressure, Fitch Ratings director says
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,
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,
In a bid to lift bond yields, the People's Bank of China suspended its government ... may be much smaller this time," said Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie, given that Beijing has signaled its policy preference for a "relatively stable yuan."
Beijing will take necessary measures to defend its legitimate interests, China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Friday after Japan announced a series of tech and trade curbs, including sanctions on more than a dozen Chinese companies.
Higher US tariffs under President Donald Trump could accelerate a slump in the value of China's currency, complicating recent efforts by Beijing to kickstart a rebound in its struggling economy,