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China RRR Cut; StanChart An Obvious Winner

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China RRR cut: further to this, worth pointing out that sort of liquidity injection is not unheard of for the PBOC and the destress stimulus it puts into the banking sector can be meaningful.


  • HSBC (HSBA LN) and Standard Chartered (STAN LN) are the two European banks with most to gain here and recall that HSBC CEO Tucker was in Beijing on Monday meeting Chinese VP Han. There’s a lot at stake politically for these banks (let alone economically).
  • Both of these banks’ equity has underperformed the SX7P index (see graphic), StanChart very meaningfully since Oct-23 so has more to gain and, considering the key risk identified by the equity market was credit quality, this could well flow through to the credit stack.

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