“China’s central bank, breaking its long silence on a liquidity squeeze that has strained funding at many of the nation’s banks, suggested they shouldn’t look to authorities to solve their cash shortage. The surge in the cost of short-term funds, which banks use to lend to each other, stemmed from an overstretched financial sector—as inflows of funds from abroad slowed—and a mismatch between banks’ short-term funding needs and long-term loans. On Monday, concerns over the funding problems led to a wave of selling in shares of midsize banks, many of them heavily reliant on the interbank market for their funds.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324183204578564832837833840.html
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