In the least, investors expect to see a further broadening of the yuan's
trading band next year and the establishment of a deposit insurance scheme - a prelude to a gradual freeing up of deposit rates and full liberalization of interest rates.
Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the
next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and
trading her
band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.