Friday, August 18, 2006
China raises base rate
China raises interest rates by 0.27 pct point
China raised interest rates on Friday in the latest of a series of tightening steps aimed at slowing a boom in credit and investment that risks destabilising the world's fourth-largest economy. The People's Bank of China, the central bank, said on its Web site (www.pboc.gov.cn) that it had ordered an increase of 0.27 percentage point in commercial banks' benchmark one-year deposit and lending rates.
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