Stories that the PBOC banned banks from increasing deposit rates when it raised the deposit rate ceiling at the weekend are another sign of policymakers’ ambivalence towards the use of market-oriented policy tools. Still, the fact that the ceiling was nonetheless raised signals that interest rate liberalisation remains the medium-term goal.
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