BEIJING: China's central bank conducted 149.1 billion yuan (US$20.9 billion) of seven-day reverse repos at an interest rate of 1.7 percent Tuesday.Xinhua News Agency quoted a statement from the People's Bank of China as saying that the move aims to keep liquidity reasonable and ample in the banking system at the end of this month.A reverse repo is a process in which the central bank purchases securities from commercial banks through bidding, with an agreement to sell them back in the future.Source: Emirates News Agency
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