{"id":1252,"date":"2014-11-08T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2014-11-08T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T12:50:01","slug":"china-awards-8-2-billion-rqfii-quota-to-canada-in-harper-visit-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"China Awards $8.2 Billion RQFII Quota to Canada in Harper Visit &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-11-08\/china-awards-8-2-billion-rqfii-quota-to-canada-in-harper-visit.html'>China Awards $8.2 Billion RQFII Quota to Canada in Harper Visit &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<br \/>\nChina gave a 50 billion yuan ($8.2 billion) quota to Canada under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program as Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Beijing and signed deals to boost economic ties.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides signed deals worth almost C$2.5 billion ($2.2 billion), agreements that will create thousands of jobs in Canada, Harper said. Separately, China\u2019s State Council also approved a three-year C$30 billion currency swap agreement with Canada, the People\u2019s Bank of China said in a statement on its website today.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows China\u2019s award of a 30 billion yuan quota to Qatar as the world\u2019s second-largest economy expands the RQFII program beyond Hong Kong in efforts to promote global use of the yuan. China started the program in 2011, allowing investors holding the currency overseas to buy domestic bonds, stocks and money-market instruments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure that will give a strong support for our business ties and mutual investment,\u201d China\u2019s Premier Li Keqiang said as he met Harper.<br \/>\n&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Awards $8.2 Billion RQFII Quota to Canada in Harper Visit &#8211; Bloomberg. China gave a 50 billion yuan ($8.2 billion) quota to Canada under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program as Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Beijing and signed deals to boost economic ties. The two sides signed deals worth almost C$2.5 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[103,130,958,675],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-currency-swap","tag-renminbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}