Chinese Yuan: PBoC’s new tool signals mild strength – BNY
Geoff Yu at BNY highlights that the PBoC’s new overnight liquidity tool was launched at 1.25%, below consensus and the seven-day reverse repo rate, sending a dovish signal. The facility aims to smooth short-end funding and cash market volatility. Government bond yields edged lower and USD/CNY slipped, as markets priced a modest easing in Chinese financial conditions.
Short-end rates guided lower
"China easing: Any shift in the PBoC’s liquidity management will have implications for global financial conditions. The new overnight reverse repo facility has debuted at 1.25%, which is 15bp below the key 7-day reverse repo rate and also below the 1.30-1.35% consensus range before the operation. Evidently, the weak round of data seen over the past month has increased the impetus for stimulus, and we firmly believe that fiscal measures are on the way."
"However, such responses can only go so much without fundamental change in corporate “involution,” and the message is clear as Beijing’s city government issued yet another summons to platform firms to improve profitability."
"The PBoC has set the rate on its new overnight liquidity tool at 1.25%, below the 1.30-1.35% consensus range, in a move widely viewed as a mild dovish surprise and a de facto easing signal. The bank also carried out ¥300bn of overnight reverse repurchase operations, while its seven-day reverse repo benchmark stayed at 1.4%. The action is the first use of this facility to manage liquidity and is intended to better control short-end borrowing costs, smooth cash market volatility and support a more market-oriented framework for short-term rate setting."
"Market reaction was modest, with government bond yields edging lower after the announcement. CSI 300 +1.21% to 4927, USDCNY -0.106% to 6.7932, 10y CGB -1.2bp to 1.714%."
"FI: There was broad-based demand for sovereign bonds, led by the Eurozone, the U.K and India. Selling was concentrated in Philippine, Colombian and Japanese government bonds."
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