Central bank drains 25 bln yuan via bills
(Asia Pulse)
Updated: 2005-12-01 18:35

The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said on Thursday it had entered into the following open-market operations:

The central bank conducts open-market operations with banks, insurers, brokerages and rural credit cooperatives on China's national interbank market in Shanghai.

The central bank typically issues one-year bills each Tuesday and three-month bills each Thursday. Bills of other maturities will be sold as and when necessary, it has said.

It can conduct reverse repos on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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