China seen heading towards black box monetary policy
Shanghai
CHINA'S central bank put investors on edge in October, setting aside transparency in favour of covert monetary policy operations as regulators balance the need to revive productive investment against the risk of reanimating high-risk credit growth.
The strategy has two prongs. On the one hand, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) has gone passive in the open money market, neither injecting nor draining cash on a net basis for three straight weeks, the longest such stretch on record.
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