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China central bank rolls over maturing loans, injects cash

2024.08.25 23:16

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank rolled over maturing medium-term loans and injected cash through its liquidity instruments on Monday, underlining market expectations for further easing as the economy struggles to gain traction.

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said it was keeping the rate on 300 billion yuan ($42.11 billion) worth of one-year medium-term lending facility (MLF) loans to some financial institutions at 2.30%, unchanged from the previous operation.

And it injected another 471 billion yuan through seven-day reverse repos while keeping borrowing costs unchanged at 1.70%.

“Today’s outcome adds to expectation for a near-term reserve requirement ratio (RRR) cut,” said Frances Cheung, head of FX and rates strategy at OCBC Bank.

“Meanwhile, as U.S. rates fell further, there may also be renewed expectations for an interest rate cut (in China).”

China is struggling with a prolonged property crisis that has curbed investment and dented consumer demand.

Monday’s reverse repo operation was meant to “keep month-end banking system liquidity conditions reasonably ample,” the central bank said in an online statement.

A batch of 401 billion yuan worth of MLF loans was due earlier this month, when the PBOC said it would postpone the loan rollover.

The postponement and the sequence of a string of key interest rate cuts last month suggested that the central bank has changed its monetary policy framework, market watchers said, shifting the short-term rate to being the main signal guiding markets.

OCBC’s Cheung expected the difference in yields between 5-year and 30-year, and 2-year and 30-year China government bond yields, to steepen.

PBOC Governor Pan Gongsheng, in remarks published in state media on Saturday, said the central bank would adhere to supportive monetary policy to guide reasonable growth in credit lending and help the world’s second-largest economy.

© Reuters. Paramilitary police officers stand guard in front of the headquarters of the People's Bank of China, the central bank (PBOC), in Beijing, China September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made it clear the U.S. central bank would not shy away from pivoting to interest rate cuts in the final weeks of a presidential election campaign and that protecting the job market was now its top priority.

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