BEIJING: China’s bank lending rose in June and the broader money supply also increased, the central bank said Tuesday, as monetary easing measures to boost the world’s second-largest economy kicked in.

Domestic banks extended new loans of 1.27 trillion yuan ($204.5 billion), up from 900.8 billion yuan in May, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said in a statement.

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