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AP
China Boosts Reserve Rate Again
Thursday September 6, 7:17 am ET
China's Central Bank Increases Reserve Rate Again to Curb Growth in Credit
BEIJING (AP) -- China raised the amount of money that its banks must hold in reserve for the seventh time this year on Thursday, reducing the amount available for lending in an effort to cool an investment boom.
The reserve requirement ratio will rise a half percentage point to 12.5 percent for most commercial banks, the People's Bank of China said.
The move will take effect on Sept. 25, it said in a statement posted on its Web site.
The bank said the move was made "in order to strengthen the administration of the liquidity of the banking system and to curb rapid growth in credit."
The order comes on top of repeated interest rate hikes and investment curbs imposed on real estate, auto manufacturing and other industries in an effort to cool a boom that Chinese leaders worry could ignite inflation or a financial crisis.
It also follows the recent release of government figures on inflation.
The inflation rate in the January-July period hit 3.5 percent, driven by the sizzling economy and a 15.4 percent surge in the price of pork and other food items over the year-earlier period.
Consumer prices soared 5.6 percent in July over the same month last year -- the highest monthly inflation rate since February 1997.
China's central bank said last week it expects the inflation rate for the year to exceed the government's 3 percent target.
The reserve rate increase took effect Aug. 15.