China’s Shadow Banking Grinds To A Halt As Bad Debt Surges Most In A Decade

It is probably not a coincidence that just as we learn that “China’s bad loans jumped by the most since 2005 in the third quarter, fueling concern that a cooling economy will be further weakened as banks limit lending to avoid credit risks” that we also learn that in the month of October, China once again slammed the brakes on credit creation, with total new loans dropping to RMB548 billion from RMB857 BN, below the RMB626 BN expected, the lowest monthly expansion in 2014…

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/16/2014.