BEIJING, 26th August, 2024 (WAM) -- China's central bank conducted 471 billion yuan (about US$66 billion) of seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 1.7 percent Monday.
Xinhua news agency quoted the People's Bank of China as saying that the move aims to keep liquidity reasonable and ample in the banking system at the end of the month.
A reverse repo is a process in which the central bank purchases se