PBOC’s Attempt to Exit Crisis Mode Faces a $500 Billion Test
#China’s banks need $500 billion in fresh #liquidity this month to roll over existing #debt and buy government bonds, complicating the PBOC’s efforts to exit crisis measures. #recession
China's banking sector expected to dispose $490 billion of bad loans in 2020
“The sector will further step up bad loan disposals in 2021, as some of the problems will be exposed next year due to delayed loan payments” #China#recession
Borrowing to buy stocks pushes China’s record household debt
Consumer loans flowing into stocks caught regulatory attention. Household debt climbs to new high while default risk surges #China#recession#debt#StockMarket
Unlicensed asset management companies are still operating in China, causing a “serious threat to financial stability”, a top official of China’s central bank. #China#economy#recession
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"Current economic situation is complex and severe”
People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang urged banks to support smaller companies through innovations in financial services and products. #China#PBOC#recession
🇨🇳 Beijing has enlisted nation’s mega banks to aid in recovery and they are ramping up their recruitment joining other state-owned firms in boosting employment even as lenders deal with plunging earnings and ballooning bad debt #China#recession#Banking
🇨🇳China's Xi worried?
Warns "period of turbulent change" as external risks rise
Economy is facing a period of turbulent change and rising external markets risk required policymakers to increasingly rely on domestic demand to spur growth #China#recession
🇨🇳 China’s 4 biggest banks face $940 billion capital shortage by 2024... to meet global capital requirements designed to protect the public and the financial system against massive bank failures #China#recession
🇨🇳 China central bank injects $29 billion via reverse repos
... injected 200 billion yuan into the banking system, a batch of 150 billion worth of reverse repos is set to mature, leaving 50 billion on a net basis via the #liquidity tool #China#recession
The zombie share peaked in 2010 at 16% and declined in the subsequent recovery by a mere 2 percentage points. Since 2015 the share of zombie companies is already rising again
Probability of a zombie remaining a zombie in the following year rose to 85% in 2017 #recession#economy
They restrict the entry of new, more productive companies, diminish job creation in the economy and lock capital into unproductive uses. In a word, they are a menace to the economy and society #recession
Central bankers will take an active (in practice, permanent) role in the financial markets. The hope is that this would keep the global asset bubble inflated and the world economy going #recession