{"id":30110,"date":"2012-06-07T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/2012\/06\/china-cuts-key-interest-rate-25-basis-points\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:04:00","slug":"china-cuts-key-interest-rate-25-basis-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/06\/07\/china-cuts-key-interest-rate-25-basis-points\/","title":{"rendered":"China cuts key interest rate 25 basis points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News<br \/>\n<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties>  <o:Template>Normal.dotm<\/o:Template>  <o:Revision>0<\/o:Revision>  <o:TotalTime>0<\/o:TotalTime>  <o:Pages>1<\/o:Pages>  <o:Words>95<\/o:Words>  <o:Characters>544<\/o:Characters>  <o:Company>PNCN<\/o:Company>  <o:Lines>4<\/o:Lines>  <o:Paragraphs>1<\/o:Paragraphs>  <o:CharactersWithSpaces>668<\/o:CharactersWithSpaces>  <o:Version>12.0<\/o:Version> <\/o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>  <o:AllowPNG\/> <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:TrackMoves>false<\/w:TrackMoves>  <w:TrackFormatting\/>  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>  <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt<\/w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>  <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt<\/w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>  <w:SaveIfXMLInval>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>   <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables\/>   <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx\/>  <\/w:Compatibility> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"276\"> <\/w:LatentStyles><\/xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><![endif]-->   <!--StartFragment--> <\/p>\n<div><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/span><span><span>The People&#8217;s Bank of China cut its leading interest rate by 25 basis points and gave banks more freedom to set deposit rates for savers, the first time since 2008 China&#8217;s central bank has cut rates.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div><span><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; The PBOC said in a &nbsp;statement that the &#8220;upper limit&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;floating range&nbsp;of&nbsp;interest rates on deposits&nbsp;of&nbsp;financial institutions&nbsp;was adjusted to&nbsp;1.1&nbsp;times&nbsp;the&nbsp;benchmark interest rate&#8221; and banks would also be permitted to extend loans for 80 percent of the benchmark rate. The current limit for loans is 90 percent of the benchmark rate.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span>&nbsp; &nbsp; The benchmark one-year lending rate will be cut to 6.31 percent from 6.56 percent, the level since July 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-7406393685935933177?l=www.centralbanknews.info\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Central Bank News &nbsp; &nbsp; The People&#8217;s Bank of China cut its leading interest rate by 25 basis points and gave banks more freedom to set deposit rates for savers, the first time since 2008 China&#8217;s central bank has cut rates. &nbsp; &nbsp; The PBOC said in a &nbsp;statement that the &#8220;upper limit&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;floating range&nbsp;of&nbsp;interest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2012\/06\/07\/china-cuts-key-interest-rate-25-basis-points\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China cuts key interest rate 25 basis points&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}