Inflation drops in China to 3.2% in February keeping the People’s Bank on track for an interest rate cut
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...The global financial casino is moving on–to China
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...China cuts growth target to 7.5% for 2012–but I don’t think this means China’s leaders are forecasting lower growth
China will cut its target for economic growth to 7.5% in 2012 from 8%. Global financial markets have decided that a lower growth target means China’s leadership is forecasting lower growth. I think two alternative explanations are a better fit to the facts that we know.
Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Go figure: China’s markets rally on signs of economic slowdown
Today’s reading from HSBC’s Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index showed a slight tick up to 49.7 to hit a three month high, but since the index remained below 50 it showed the economy still slowing. And worse the export component in the index fell to an eight-month low. Good or bad news for Chinese stocks?
Saturday Night Quarterback says, For the week ahead expect…
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To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...When is a bad loan not a bad loan? When China’s government says it isn’t
China has told its big government controlled banks to roll over loans to local governments. That means local governments that borrowed from the banks to pay for the 2008 stimulus plan ordered by Beijing and to finance everything from factories to roads to apartment complexes to shopping malls to the tune of 10.7 trillion yuan ($1.7 trillion) won’t have to pay back those loans as they mature.
Yes, there is economic news from somewhere besides Greece
Inflation jumps in China, growth turns negative in Germany, but the U.S. economy looks genuinely stronger in today’s numbers