Sunday, April 29, 2007

RPT-UPDATE 2-China clamps down on credit growth -- again

(Reuters) - BEIJING, April 29 - China on Sunday ordered banks for the second time this month to hold more of their deposits in reserve in the latest attempt to prevent credit and investment growth from destabilising the world's fourth-largest economy.

The People's Bank of China said on its Web site that big banks would have to hold 11 percent of their deposits in reserve at the central bank as from May 15, up from 10.5 percent now.


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