Foreign Investors’ China Bond Holdings Fall in February – Caixin

Overseas institutional investors reduced their holdings of Chinese bonds in February for the first time since November 2018 as the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine fueled risk-off sentiment among global investors, Caixin reported.

They held nearly 3.67 trillion yuan ($580 billion) of Chinese bonds at the end of February, a reduction of 67 billion yuan from January, data from the China Central Depository and Clearing Co. Ltd showed.

Read the full report: Caixin
 

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Jim Pollard

Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.

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