BEIJING: China’s bank lending decreased in October after rising in the previous two months on the back of seasonal factors and lower government bond issuances, data from the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, showed on Wednesday.
Lenders provided 689.8 billion yuan (US$104bil) in new loans in October compared with 1.9 trillion yuan in September.
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