Overseas institutions hold more Chinese interbank bonds

SHANGHAI, Jan 16 (XINHUA/APP):Overseas institutions held more bonds in China’s interbank bond market last month, official data showed.

By the end of December, bonds in China’s interbank market held by overseas institutions totaled 4 trillion yuan (629.3 billion U.S. dollars), the People’s Bank of China Shanghai Head Office said in its latest report.The figure is a 750-billion-yuan increase from the same period a year ago.

Last month, six new overseas institutional investors entered China’s interbank bond market, bringing the total to 1,016, the report showed.

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