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No Pan-acea
The price of money's irrelevant if there's no demand for it.
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It is quite the extensive package of stimuli, gotta give Pan that. Lower policy rates, lower borrowing rates, lower mortgage rates, lower mortage downs, two equity buying schemes, and additional capital for the big state banks. Xi can’t say his new-ish PBOC head isn’t trying. Analyst reaction in media seems to be “most aggressive stimulus since pandemic” but “more fiscal stimulus needed”, e.g. Reuters’ quicktake, so they are trying to tell Xi about string-pushing, but maybe he reads People’s Daily. Chinese market participants seem to like it, but some are just following orders and others are algos.
What must it be like for independent banks in China – rates down, no demand, the big state banks get all the capital. Probably a naive question and someone will inform me there is no such thing.
I haven’t seen a gap up like the one on the MCHI chart today since since the Gamestop yolo yoyo in ’21.