Foreign investors reduce China onshore bond holdings in Oct

Foreign holdings of China's onshore yuan bonds decreased for the second consecutive month in October, official data showed on Friday.

Foreign institutions held 4.25 trillion yuan ($588.17 billion) in bonds traded on China's interbank market as of the end of October, the central bank's Shanghai head office said, down from 4.39 trillion yuan a month earlier.

($1 = 7.2258 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Susan Fenton)