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No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... January-February period, below consensus expectations for growth of 11.0% and December's 11.1% rate. Chinese fixed asset investment provided some good news, with growth accelerating to 10.2% from 8.5% in the year to December. This is also better than ...

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... been falling (in year-on-year terms) for seven straight month through to September. Away from investment. Fixed asset investment expanded by 10.3% in the nine months to September - the slowest in 15 year -- down from 16.1% in the same period last year. ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... sturdier than the 5.6% and 5.9% growth recorded in March and April and just a tad lower than May's 6.1% rate. Fixed asset investment is clearly slowing, down to 11.2% in the first seven months of 2015 from 11.4% in the period between January and June ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... afternoon after the National Bureau of Statistics announced figures for retail sales, industrial output and fixed asset investment, which all missed expectations. The figures are the latest to show ongoing weakness in the world's number two economy - ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... smoke, there's... Disappointing fresh data releases out of China - retail sales, industrial production, fixed asset investment - provide extra fuel to these speculation. The PBOC must act before the on-going economic slowdown gathers momentum and breaks ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... indicator. Latest data show weakness in industrial production, energy output, retail sales, money supply, fixed asset investment, property prices, foreign direct investment and money supply growth. That's more than "one", is it not? This was enough to ...

Anticipatory and moderate adjustments had become necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... Consumers Fail To Deliver (Forbes) China Money-Supply Growth Eases to Five-Month Low (Bloomberg) Chinese fixed asset investment and industrial production cool further (ShareCast) China economic outlook threatened by property decline (The Australian) ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... indicating that the Chinese economy is slowing - growth in money supply, industrial production, retail sales and fixed asset investment all printed below market expectations. But never mind this, China has the determination - the Politburo says 7.5% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... cent, or 20.27 points, to 2,331.95. China will on Saturday announce figures including retail sales and fixed asset investment for August. Data released Thursday showed inflation easing to a four-month low, fuelling the case for a further easing in monetary ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... it will be one-way traffic until we get some good news," he told AAP. "China's industrial production and fixed asset investment data is out today, if that might comes in a bit positive, it might help sentiment improve." Among iron ore miners, Fortescue ...