Today’s reductions to both the one-year and five-year Loan Prime Rates (LPR) probably won’t be the last this year. But rate cuts are likely to remain modest as the PBOC appears to think they could hinder rather than help its efforts to boost inflation. As such, we shouldn’t expect much boost to loan demand or wider economic activity from monetary policy.
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