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Shanghai, China: A Chinese customer in a branch of the Ningbo Bank on the eve of IPO in Shanghai July 18, 2007.
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The recent rebound in the yield of China’s government bonds is not a sign of reflection, economists say, as constant deflation pressure is expected to maintain low cost of borrowing.
Enhanced sale in China’s government bonds has been sent yields growing in recent weeksAs the China People’s Bank has drained the liquidity from the money market to stabilize its currency and the sudden increase of Deepseek encouraged the funds to rotate in shares.
Benchmark’s 10-year yield has accumulated over 30 basic points from its historical low levels in January In order to reach the psychological level from 2% this week, levels have not been observed since December.
“The market optimism outpaced reality,” Edmund said, a head of China’s fixed income in Abdn, warning that “there is no clear signal that the economy is out of the forest.”
Consumer sentiment is close to record low levels, and demand for loans from households and corporations is still anemic.
The new household loans were only 54.7 billion yuan ($ 7.5 billion) in January-February, according to Data published by PBOCS This marked the lowest level in the same period in the last two decades, according to Larry Hu, a chief Chinese economist in Macquarie, citing a fading home market recovery.
The cost of borrowing in the broader economy -which usually moves in tandem with the yield of government bonds -will probably be “a lower time,” said Jason Pang, a fixed income portfolio manager in JP Morgan Asset Management.
Although it expects monetary policy to remain “adaptable”, the investment bank is “China’s 10-year government bonds as a” tariff hed “, expecting the yield to trade between 1.65% and 2.0%.
Cheaper loans
Chinese commercial banks seek to attract customers with record loans interest, taking into account Beijing’s call to stimulate lending. People have chosen to tear off the money, as the prospects for income growth remain shaken and the prolonged housing market has eroded the wealth of households.
Household saving more than doubled in 2018 to about 151 trillion yuan last year, even when banks have repeatedly reduced deposit rates. During the first two months of this year, Household deposits are increasing to 6.13 trillion yuan.
National Financial Regulatory Administration last week He urged banks to expand the issuance of personal consumption loans and to determine “reasonable” credit limits and interest rates.
Haian, China – July 22, 2024 – A member of the Bank’s personal loan staff processes personal loans for customers in Haian, Jiangsu province in Eastern China, July 22, 2024.
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Several regional banks across the country have allocated cheap loans for consumption with interest as low as 2.58% – a dramatic decline of Loan rates over 4.36% in May 2022, according to Data from the Rong360 Digital Technology InstituteS
The loan prices will probably fall further, as demand for loans remains muffled, said Becky Liu, head of China’s macro strategy at Standard Chartered Bank, “Deflational pressure is still deepening.”
LIU expects a 10-year government note to bring only 1.4% by the end of this year, as the central bank is progressing forward with further relief of money to enhance growth.
Deflation strip
Beijing has made an increase in domestic consumption a major priority for politics this year, as China is preparing for an updated trade war with the US on the back of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
The new Tariffs that Trump has imposed on Chinese goods have already weighed For the growth of country exportsS
China’s consumer prices inflation in February fell into a negative territory For the first time in more than a year, while the deflation of producer prices has been going on for more than two years.
During the first two months of the year, the basic inflation, which excludes volatile objects such as food and energy, is evaluated that it has grown only by 0.3%, Macquarie Hu said, predicting that this will mark the longest deflation series of 1993.
If (China) the economy continues to slow down or the Fed blinks, the expectation of interest reduction will reappear and the yield of connections may fall again.
Larry Hu
Macquarie Chief Chinese Economist
To be sure, “low interest rates are unlikely to be sufficient to cause a revival in consumer lending,” says Frederick Neumann, an Asia chief economist in HSBC Bank, emphasizing that achieving such a goal requires a “confidence” that can only arise gradually.
Most of the wealth of Chinese households is owned, but the crisis sector is still struggling to find a floor. New Housing Prices fell by 4.8% in February from a year ago, while investment in real estate development dropped 9.8% per year During the first two months.
Yuan in focus
Relinking in US government debt this year, led by fears about influence tariffs, will be on the delayed economy, sent yields to a nicer. This, in turn, narrowed the difference between the profitability of bonds in the US and those of the respective Chinese debt.
A key source of weakness in the yuan was capital leakage to the United States, where the bond yield was higher. The latest market movements that have seen that the profitability of bonds in the United States is decreasing precisely with the increase in the profitability of Chinese bonds, therefore reduced the pressure on the yuan.
In particular, the difference in yield between the 10-year government bond in China and the 10-year note of the US Department of Finance, although narrowing to a three-month minimum, was still significant at 230 base points to Friday, according to LSEG.
“The risk of a strong RMB is in the near future,” said Ju Wang, the head of the Big China Strategy and the BNP Paribas tariffs, citing the US Federal Reserve Plan to be Further scaling of links He also holds the growing yield in China’s long -standing bonds.
“This can partially alleviate friction in trade (such as) the market will understand that China not only abstained from the depreciation of RMB, despite a 20% tariff, but also allowed some modest yuan evaluation,” Wang said.
Chinese offshore Yuan has regained a certain position against the US dollar in recent weeks after reaching a 16-month minimum in January. He was last seen to trade on 7.2478 against Greenback. However, it weakened over 2% of US President Donald Trump’s victory in November.
PBOC Save your indicator 7-day reporting percentage unchanged from SeptemberStanding at 1.5%, refuting expectations that the central bank will reduce the rates to stimulate the economy. Officials have repeatedly hinted at his plan for further relief this year, but they have not yet followed.
Thehe Federal reserve In a carefully watched decision Wednesday Supported interest rates are stable, showing that the reductions are probably later during the year.
“If (China) the economy continues to slow down or the Fed blinks, the expectation of interest reduction will reappear and the profitability of bonds may fall again,” Hu told Macquarie.
