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China central bank: Monetary policy remains reasonably loose

Published 01/12/2010, 07:34 AM
Updated 01/12/2010, 07:36 AM

BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters) - China's first increase on Tuesday since June 2008 in the ratio of bank deposits that must be held in reserve was meant to stabilise loan growth but keep overall policy pro-growth, a Chinese central bank official said.

"Our monetary policy stance is still appropriately loose and the move is intended to use quantitative tools for flexible fine-tuning," an official at the People's Bank of China told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The hike in the reserve requirement ratio by a half percentage point was sooner than many economists had anticipated and was interpreted as a pre-emptive move against inflation. [ID:nTOE60B095]

(Reporting by Eadie Chen and Simon Rabinovitch; Editing by Ron Askew)

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