Bank of France cut its 2026 GDP forecast and said the economy should pick up next year.

Sources say China-controlled Syngenta Group has quietly filed for a Hong Kong IPO to raise about $5 billion, reviving a listing plan that was postponed amid Middle East tensions. If regulators approve, the company plans to list next year.

As of 15:00, DR001 (overnight pledged repo) weighted average was 1.4281% and DR007 was 1.4234%; money-market rates are oscillating narrowly around the policy pivot. In September the PBOC rolled two tenors of outright reverse repos at equal amounts, ending a two-month pattern of increasing volumes; the 3-month outright reverse repo on Sept. 3 was also rolled at an unchanged amount. Wang Qing, chief macro analyst at Orient Jincheng, said liquidity is relatively ample, and the PBOC has kept 7-day reverse-repo operations minimal or at zero since early September to prevent market rates from drifting materially below the policy rate. Ongoing growth-support measures — including accelerated government bond issuance and expedited deployment of 800 billion yuan in new policy financial instruments — will require continued PBOC liquidity support.