Monday, August 21, 2023

Followup: "PBOC cuts one-year Loan Prime Rates to 3.45% but keeps five-year LPRs unchanged"

Following on yesterday's "...China to cut rates, but will it 'go big'?", the answer was no.

From FX Street, August 21:

On Monday, China's central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), lowered the one-year Loan Prime Rate (LPR) to 3.45% from 3.55% previous and 3.40% expected. That said, the Chinese central bank kept the five-year LPRs unchanged at 4.20%.

It's worth noting that the PBoC previously cut the Medium-term Lending Facility (MLF), Standing Lending Facility rates (SLFs) and the the Reverse Repo Rates to infuse liquidity into the world's second largest economy....

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