China’s May lending seen tripling on monetary measures, trade truce

China’s new yuan loans more than tripled in May compared with a month ago, matching the borrowing appetite in the same period last year, as a temporary trade truce between China and the United States and new government measures helped boost credit demand.

Chinese banks are estimated to have issued 850 billion yuan ($118.27 billion) in net new yuan loans last month, according to 18 economists polled by Reuters. April saw 280 billion yuan loans distributed.