Economics
China's New Credit Surges to Record on Seasonal Lending Binge
- Property recovery fuels demand for loans at new year
- Companies increase bond issuance with yields at decade low
Reasons Why There's a Surge in New Loans in China
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China’s broadest measure of new credit surged to a record as a seasonal lending binge coincided with a recovery in property prices.
Aggregate financing rose to 3.42 trillion yuan ($525 billion) in January, according to a report from the People’s Bank of China on Tuesday, compared with the median forecast of 2.2 trillion yuan in a Bloomberg survey. New yuan loans jumped to 2.51 trillion yuan, also a record and beating the median estimate of 1.9 trillion yuan.