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China Lowers Borrowing Costs For Companies And Households To Encourage Consumption

China Lowers Borrowing Costs For Companies And Households To Encourage Consumption

OpenLife Nigeria reports that China’s central bank has cut key lending rates. This was announced early Tuesday following a monthly meeting.
This includes a mortgage-linked benchmark which is essentially designed to encourage investment and consumption after the country’s post-pandemic recovery softened over the last five months.
In the new arrangement, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) lowered the one-year loan prime rate by 10 basis points to 3.55% from 3.65%, while trimming the five-year rate by 10 basis points to 4.2% from 4.3%. The moves will lower borrowing costs for companies and households.
The last time the PBOC eased the rates was in August 2022 after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai took a toll on the economy.
Key economic indicators, including industrial production and retail spending, slowed in April and May after the world’s No. 2 economy posted better-than-expected growth of 4.5% in the first quarter. The jobless rate among youth hit a record 20.8% while real estate investment contracted 7.2% in May.
Most new and outstanding loans in China are based on the one-year loan prime rate, while the five-year rate influences mortgage pricing. The property sector is reeling from scores of housing projects left unfinished by debt-swamped developers.
Earlier, the Chinese central bank cut the rate on its medium-term lending facility loans to some banks by 10 basis points to 2.65% from 2.75%, while lowering its seven-day reverse repo rate, the key rate at which it supplies short-term liquidity to banks, from 2.00% to 1.90%.

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