Before I go on, a comment on the wires from PBOC's Yi: Gang, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China.

  • Price stability not equal to financial stability
  • China's monetary policy, MPA, stabilise inflation

(speaking at the party congress... ps, MPA is Macro Prudential Assessment )

In Open Market Operations the People's Bank of China

  • to inject 80bn yuan via 7 day reverse repos
  • to inject 60bn yuan through 14 day reverse repos

OMO net injection (after accounting for maturing RRs) of 100bn yuan