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MNI China Press Digest: Monday, Nov. 27

     BEIJING (MNI) - The following are highlights from the China press for
Monday, Nov. 27.
     With monetary policy transitioning to price-dominated management, the
central bank's control of money market rates needs to be further improved, the
Financial News, a journal run by the People's Bank of China, reported Monday on
its front page. The duration structure of money market rates needs to be
reformed to better influence long-term rates, the report said, citing analysts.
The PBOC's monetary instruments have helped optimize the benchmark yield curve
and accelerate the transmission of monetary policy. The expansion of the bond
market and the reduction in the required reserve ratio could also make bond
rates and credit rates more sensitive to policy signals, the report argued. The
macro-prudential framework should include cross-border capital flows in its
macro-prudential assessments and strengthened controls of the property market to
allow for differential policies to respond to varying situations among cities.
(Financial News)
     The low growth of M2 money supply will not have a large negative influence
on the economy and the importance of stabilizing liquidity and securitizing
financial sector risks has not changed, the People's Daily said in a commentary
Monday. The deceleration of M2 growth has been a result of financial
deleveraging and effect of the movement of deposits out of instruments included
in the M2 gauge as financial innovation has diversified savings options, the
commentary noted. Given the background of prudential monetary policy, a proper
level of M2 will be maintained with the support of various policy tools, the
commentary argued, adding the market should not over-react to M2's current
performance. (People's Daily)
     Regulators are expected to tighten controls on consumer loan asset-backed
securities as issuance of those instruments in the exchange market has surged by
five times in the past year, the Economic Information Daily reported Monday. The
new issuance of consumption finance this year has accounted for over 30% of the
total newly-issued ABS of CNY1 trillion as of Nov, 23. But a large amount of
these ABS have been issued in the exchange market, which means they are out of
the control of authorities, the report noted. This could trigger default risk
due to lack of transparency, poor risk assessment as well as weak risk controls
by issuers, the report warned. (Economic Information Daily)
     The property market in China is undergoing a transition as controls on
property sales tighten and rental house policy is pushed forward, the Xinhua
News Agency reported Sunday. The toxic circle of "tighter controls, higher
prices" is expected to be broken because rising housing prices have been reined
in, policies to reduce inventories of unsold houses have worked, while financing
controls and the provision of new land for development have curbed speculation,
the report said. Half of residential housing problems in big cities can be
solved by housing purchases and half through rental housing, the report argued.
The emphasis on both housing purchases and rental housing will be a long-term
policy for the property market, the report said. (Xinhua)
--MNI Beijing Bureau; +86 (10) 8532 5998; email: marissa.wang@marketnews.com
--MNI BEIJING Bureau; +1 202-371-2121; email: john.carter@mni-news.com
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