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China’s central bank kept a key policy rate steady while injecting liquidity into the financial market, signaling that it may hold benchmark rates unchanged for longer.

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Many Hong Kong public bodies have seen increasing interest in multicurrency bonds to attract more international investors, UBS says.

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Beijing has assured Dhaka it will look into the request to lower the interest rate to ease Bangladesh’s foreign debt ...

Beijing contends with a weakening yuan while awaiting policy clues from the incoming Donald Trump’s administration.

China's central bank and top securities regulator have vowed to ramp up supportive policy tools to shore up the country's ...

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