BEIJING: China has raised interest rates for the first time in 18 months on Thursday to slow a boom in credit and investment that risks destabilising the world's fastest-growing major economy.
In a move which took global markets by surprise, hitting shares and metals prices and briefly boosting Japan's yen, the central bank raised its benchmark one year lending rate to 5.85% from 5.58%.
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