China’s banks swap 1 trillion yuan of debt into stocks, extending financial life line to state debtors

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China’s banks converted more than 1 trillion yuan (US$149.2 billion) of debt into stock holdings in more than 70 state-owned enterprises, in the government’s largest debt-to-equity swap effort to bail out the country’s most indebted borrowers …
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