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Ceiling for municipal bond sales to be hiked

The prospect of China raising the ceiling for municipal bond sales is prompting speculation the central bank will start buying the notes to hold down borrowing costs. The Ministry of Finance will probably add another 1 trillion yuan ($161 billion) quota for local-government debt swaps, taking the total to 3 trillion yuan, said Yang Feng, a fixed-income analyst at CITIC Securities Co in Beijing.