Credit data for November showed net new financing more than doubling. But that mostly reflects the usual seasonal pattern. To iron out that seasonality, we prefer to look at growth in outstanding credit growth. On that measure, aggregate financing to the real economy (AFRE – the PBOC’s preferred measure of credit growth) held steady at 8.5% y/y. (See Chart 1.)
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