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Interest rate reforms unlikely to deliver hoped-for gains

While the trade war has dominated the headlines, the People’s Bank has been getting on with the unglamorous work of financial reform. It is moving closer to phasing out benchmark lending rates. That probably won’t be enough to lower bank lending rates, as it hopes, though. Further cuts to market interest rates are needed too.

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