Economics
Chinese Bank Bad Loan Ratios Shrink as Default Wave Averted
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China’s largest banks posted a decline in bad-loan ratios for 2012 amid the slowest economic expansion in 13 years, signaling policy makers may have averted a surge in defaults.
The gauge shrank to 1.33 percent at Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., the nation’s third-largest by market value, from