Monday, December 27, 2010

China Increase Interest rates to fight inflation for the 2nd time in 2 month time

The People's Bank of China increase interest rate to fight inflation


Benchmark lending rate: Increase 25 basis points to 5.81 percent  
Benchmark deposit rate: Increase 25 basis points to 2.75 percent


More detail can be found from the link below:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101227/bs_nm/us_markets_stocks

This action drove the Asia stock indexes lower after the stock marker reopen after the lunch break and for sure tomorrow we will see another red sea all over asia stock markets....what a sad move to end year 2010!

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