China  Brakes With Interest Rate Hike
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China's central bank raised interest rates Thursday for the first time in nearly a decade, signaling a deep unease with the breakneck pace of development and an intent to curb fears of runaway inflation.
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China's annual inflation rate dropped sharply in November, heartening policy makers who have been striving to cool the economy and reducing chances of a further rise in interest rates in the near term.
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China is expected to take more steps to slow its galloping economy, a key engine of global growth, after hiking borrowing costs in a bid to stop the boom giving way to a bust.
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Economists say China may need to raise interest rates again in the coming months as it struggles to cool its economy and move toward free-market banking reforms.
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China raised interest rates on Thursday for the sixth time this year, the latest of a series of tightening steps to cap inflation and prevent the world's fourth-largest economy from overheating.
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China reported its lowest rise in inflation in nine months on Friday as growth in grain and food prices moderated, easing pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates.
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China could take action on Friday to cool its red-hot economy by raising interest rates or scrapping a withholding tax on interest income, analysts said on Friday.
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China, having surprised the world 10 days ago with its first interest rate rise in nine years, took another unusual step last week by publishing for the first time the annual report on its economy by the International Monetary Fund.
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China raised the interest rate on mortgage loans to 1.1 times the nationâs benchmark lending rates and increased the minimum down payment on apartments intended for investment in an effort to cool surging property prices.
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China's consumer inflation slowed in January, according to official figures show.
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Beijing is considering suspending or reducing a 20% tax on bank savings in China, state media reports.
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European stock markets mostly fell as investors digested a move by China to hike interest rates for the first time in almost a decade to rein in the country's strong economic growth.
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China raised interest rates on Thursday  for the sixth time this year, the latest of a series of  tightening steps to cap inflation and prevent the world's  fourth-largest economy from overheating.
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Asian financial markets showed little reaction Friday to China's first interest rate rise in nine years, which analysts welcomed as a shift toward capitalist-style economic tools and away from central planning.
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Chinese economic growth slowed a touch in the third quarter but not by enough to dispel expectations of more interest rate rises and other policy curbs to stave off the risk of overheating.
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China's surprise interest rate rise  weighed down Asian stocks on Friday as investors sold shares of  miners, shippers and other firms whose fortunes have been  closely linked to the country's rapid growth.
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China&#39;s central bank raised interest rates for the second time in less than a month on Friday in an attempt to rein in soaring food prices, excessive bank lending and bubbles in the property and stock markets.