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MNI's China Money Market Index Sees Conditions Tighten in September

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Introducing the updated MNI China Money Market Index (MMI), formerly the MNI China Liquidity Index, which has been adapted to reflect the PBOC's monetary policy. 

  • China interbank market liquidity conditions remained ample in September, whilst market participants expect PBOC easing to ease conditions through October, the latest MNI Money Market Index showed.
  • The MNI China Money Market Index suggested better liquidity in October
  • The MNI China Money Market Current Conditions Index stood at 86.0 in September
  • The MNI China PBOC Policy Bias Index picked up through September

Weak credit demand that has trapped interbank liquidity and fuelled the recent bond rally will lead the People’s Bank of China to take a more flexible approach to further injections via its open market operations, while it simultaneously attempts to steepen the yield curve via its bond trades, results from MNI’s China Money Market Index revealed.

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Introducing the updated MNI China Money Market Index (MMI), formerly the MNI China Liquidity Index, which has been adapted to reflect the PBOC's monetary policy. 

  • China interbank market liquidity conditions remained ample in September, whilst market participants expect PBOC easing to ease conditions through October, the latest MNI Money Market Index showed.
  • The MNI China Money Market Index suggested better liquidity in October
  • The MNI China Money Market Current Conditions Index stood at 86.0 in September
  • The MNI China PBOC Policy Bias Index picked up through September

Weak credit demand that has trapped interbank liquidity and fuelled the recent bond rally will lead the People’s Bank of China to take a more flexible approach to further injections via its open market operations, while it simultaneously attempts to steepen the yield curve via its bond trades, results from MNI’s China Money Market Index revealed.

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