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Where are interest rates heading?

What should we make of speculation that interest rates could soon be hiked? Rates have been rising in much of emerging Asia for a while and we believe that rate increases would be a good idea for China. Nonetheless, we think it likely that benchmark rates will still be at their current levels in a year’s time.

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