Foreign holdings of China onshore bonds increase for 12th month
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SHANGHAI, Sept 18 (Reuters) -Foreign holdings of China's onshore yuan bonds increased for the 12th consecutive month in August, official data showed on Wednesday.
Foreign institutions held 4.52 trillion yuan ($637.91 billion) worth of bonds traded on China's interbank market at the end of August, China's central bank said, up from 4.46 trillion yuan a month earlier.
China's forex regulator said the trend shows foreign appetite for yuan assets remained stable, and that participants' expectations around the exchange rate were stabilising.
China's yuan CNY=CFXS has gained more than 2% since August against the dollar, as the latter declined ahead of expected U.S. rate cuts.
The Federal Reserve concludes a policy meeting later on Wednesday, and is expected to kick off its easing cycle.
"As developed economies including the U.S. and Europe enter the rate-cutting cycle, the global financial environment is expected to improve further," the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) said in a statement.
Foreign institutions increased their Chinese treasury bond holdings to 2.28 trillion yuan in August, from 2.24 trillion yuan a month earlier. They also expanded holdings of interbank deposits to 1.12 trillion yuan, from 1.09 trillion yuan.
($1 = 7.0856 Chinese yuan renminbi)
Reporting by Li Gu in Shanghai and Summer Zhen in Hong Kong; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Philippa Fletcher
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