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China’s Central Bank Shifts Main Policy Rate to Overnight Lending in Bid to Ease Funding

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The People’s Bank of China has formally moved its main policy rate to an overnight lending rate, injecting 541 billion yuan into the banking system in a step analysts say will ease funding conditions and support the economy.

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