China's onshore and offshore money rates surged much of this week, then eased on Friday as the end-of-month demand that drove rates higher dissipated. The volume-weighted average rate of the benchmark seven-day repo traded in the interbank market, considered the best indicator of general liquidity in China, climbed to a high of 5 percent at one point on Thursday, and was 2.9391 percent on Friday afternoon.
That was still about 11 basis points higher than the previous week's closing average rate of 2.8305 percent, but traders said supply and demand were balanced.
This week's tight liquidity spawned some speculation among traders that the People's Bank of China would cut banks' reserve requirement ratio (RRR) in June. The last reduction was in April. Most analysts expect another 100 bps RRR cut in the second half of the year, especially as increasing signs emerge that smaller firms are more concerned about tightening in funding.
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