SHANGHAI: China’s yuan hovered near a 13-month low in holiday-thinned trading on Thursday, not far from breaching

China kept its main benchmark lending rates unchanged on Friday, as Beijing faces the challenge of bolstering economic growth while backstopping a weakening yuan. The People's Bank of China said it would steady the one-year loan prime rate at 3.

China is widely expected to leave its benchmark lending rates unchanged on Friday, a Reuters poll showed, as falling yields, shrinking net interest margins and a weakening yuan create limits for immediate monetary easing.

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Recently, the Politburo, China's top decision-making body, opted to respond more actively to economic downturns, boost demand and stabilize the housing market. Fiscal easing is augmented by "moderately loose" monetary policy next year. The decision to foster "unconventional" counter-cyclical adjustments is the greatest policy shift since 2008.

The Federal Reserve today made its final interest rate decision of 2024, capping a year during which the central bank provided some financial relief to inflation-weary borrowers in September by ushering in its first rate reduction in four years.

Senior officials last week endorsed their strongest pro-growth stance in a decade, indicating bigger government spending and more interest rate cuts

The People’s Bank of China set the so-called fixing at the strongest bias since July versus the average estimate in a Bloomberg survey on Thursday

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has ruled out the possibility of the central bank adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet, citing legal restrictions under the Federal Reserve Act. Powell addressed the issue during a Dec. 19 press conference, emphasizing that the Fed is not pursuing any legislative changes to alter this position.

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