BEIJING: China’s broadest measure of new credit expanded faster than expected, bringing the total of new loans extended last year to roughly equal the size of Italy’s US$1.8 trillion economy.
Aggregate financing remained robust at 1.63 trillion yuan (US$236bil) in December, compared with a median estimate of 1.3 trillion yuan in a Bloomberg survey and 1.74 trillion yuan the prior month.
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