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More easing coming, China still in US crosshairs

Policy easing efforts were expanded this week. Fiscal loosening was given the green light. The People’s Bank adopted a more proactive approach to ensuring that its liquidity injections translate into lower corporate borrowing costs and support lending to the real economy. We think there is more to come, including benchmark lending rate cuts. Meanwhile, the US and China remain very far apart on trade, making it unlikely that they can replicate the latest US-EU “deal”.

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