Chinese Interbank Rates Signal Likely Pick-Up in Loans to Firms.

Keywords: 000750@CH; 000783@CH; 3908@HK; ASIA; BON; BUSINESS; CHINA; COS; CST; FIN; GOV; INDUSTRIAL; INDUSTRIES; MARKETS; REL; WORLD EN 000750@CH 000783@CH 3908@HK ASIA BON BUSINESS CHINA COS CST FIN GOV INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIES MARKETS REL WORLD (Bloomberg) -- Chinese banks are scaling back loans to each other in a sign that they are likely lending more to companies and households as they tend to do at the start of each year. That rate fell to near zero levels last month as banks vied to lend money to each other to meet government quotas, and rising rates may indicate that financial institutions are now making more actual loans instead. [Extracted from the article]