China Credit Rating Co Ltd, the country's first rating agency to charge investors, said Friday it signed agreements with 17 financial institutions.
China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Friday it will sell 10 billion yuan ($1.53 billion) in book-entry discount treasury bonds next week at an annual interest rate of 2.55 percent.
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released four quarter-on-quarter economic indexes for the first time on Friday. The move is aimed at changing what has been seen as a controversial statistic, and a step towards accepted international standards.
China's biggest investment bank is turning "cautious" on the country's stocks, just as six of its overseas rivals and the manager of the largest mutual fund say it's time to buy.
China faces speculative capital inflows in the next couple of years and should be clearly aware of the potential shock when the capital flees, top executives warned.
Chinese banks will face a tougher task of liquidity management, as the high loan-to-deposit ratios of many commercial banks have prompted the banking regulator to consider further tightening measures, analysts said.
The People's Bank of China took 83 billion yuan ($12.7 billion) of liquidity out of the money market this week through its open market operations.
China's foreign reserves, by far the world's biggest, soared 24.4 percent over a year ago to $3.04 trillion at the end of March.
China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), said on Thursday that it set this year's social financing at around 14 trillion yuan ($2.14 trillion).
China's foreign exchange reserves hit $3.04 trillion by the end of March, an increase of 24.4 percent year on year, China's central bank said on Thursday.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, said Thursday that new yuan-denominated loans stood at 2.24 trillion yuan ($342.83 billion) in the first quarter of 2011.
Some bank outlets in Shanghai have suspended mortgage loans to home buyers, the China Securities Journal reported Thursday.