Central Banks

China Traders Boost Monetary Easing Bets as Tariffs Roil Markets

With the trade war deepening, Beijing vowed resolute measures and is considering frontloading stimulus in response to the Trump administration’s new tariffs on Chinese goods.

Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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Traders are rapidly pricing in faster easing in China as trade tensions with the US escalated, pushing down a key gauge for such bets to drop the most in five years and inch closer to the lowest since 2008.