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Chief economist update: Communists' party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... indicating expansion (above 50) over the past three months to July. Similarly, activity measures - retail sales; fixed asset investment; industrial production - continues to sequentially improved since their sharp drops in February this year. Although ...

Chief economist update: No Karens in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... offsetting the 10.0% contraction (minus 6.8% y-o-y) in the March quarter. Activity measures - retail sales; fixed asset investment; industrial production - have sequentially improved since their sharp drops in February this year. The Caixin China PMI ...

Chief economist update: China recovery would have been good for Oz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... decline in retail sales had steadily eased to -1.8% in June from the sharp 20.5% (yoy) drop in February. Fixed asset investment growth followed the same path of progressive improvement - down by just 3.1% in the year to June from February's -24.5% ...

Chief economist update: Good as gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... fall in February; the contraction in retail sales has slowed to -2.8% from February's -20.5%; so with fixed asset investment whose annual rate of decline sequentially eased to 6.3% in May from 24.5% three months before. Forward indications are also ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 takes second crack at China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... to 4.4% in the year to May from 3.9% in April and minus 1.1% in March; the year-on-year contraction in fixed asset investment has eased to minus 6.3% by May from as steep as minus 24.5% in February; annual growth in retail sales has also improved to ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... contraction in the economy had already been forewarned by the earlier reported dive in activity indicators: Fixed asset investment dropped by 16.1% in the year to March after plummeting by 24.5 in February; industrial production's 13.5% dive in Feb was ...

Chief economist update: What happens in China...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2020
... dropped by 13.5% (year-on-year) in the January-February period following a 6.9% expansion in December; fixed asset investment plunged by 24.5% over the same period (following a 5.4% gain); and, retail sales sank by 20.5% (after growing by 8.0% at the ...

Chief economist update: China leads the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... dropped by 13.5% (year-on-year) in the January-February period following a 6.9% expansion in December. Fixed asset investment plunged by 24.5% over the same period (following a 5.4% gain) and retail sales sank by 20.5% (after growing by 8.0% at the end ...

Chief economist update: Happy New Year rat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... is also better than consensus expectations for a 5.9% increase and fastest growth rate since March 2019. Fixed asset investment growth grew by 5.4% in 2019 to CNY55.2 trillion, faster than the 5.2% rate - the weakest reading on record -- registered in ...

Chief economist update: War is over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 DEC 2019
... also better than consensus expectations for a 5% increase and fastest growth rate since June this year. Fixed asset investment growth steadied at 5.2% in the January to November period to CNY53.4 trillion from the January to October period this year. ...