INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
China on Tuesday cut its market-based benchmark lending rates, with the one-year loan prime rate (LPR) down to 3 percent from the previous
reading of 3.1 percent.The over-five-year LPR, on which many lenders base their mortgage rates, was lowered to 3.5 percent from 3.6 percent,
according to the National Interbank Funding Center.
