chinese: This marked the fourth consecutive month of net purchase of Chinese bonds by foreign investors, according to Global Times China. Official data showed that Chinese bonds held by international investors surged 46 percent year-on-year by the end of 2018. Overseas institutions' deposits of Chinese bonds in the China Central Depository and Clearing Co totaled 1.51525 trillion yuan 225.5 billion as of the end of March, up 2.785 billion yuan month-on-month. China's yuan-denominated bonds started to be added to the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index on April 1. When fully implemented, China will be approximately 6.06 percent of the index, using data as of January 31 this year, according to Steve Berkley, head of indices at Bloomberg. A total of 356 government and policy bank bonds will be added to the index over the next 20 months.
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