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Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... and eat it too. The week finished with a data dump from China that, according to reports, mostly confirmed that the Politburo's and the People's Bank of China's recent efforts to re-accelerate growth has failed. The stats: Retail sales increased by 13.1% ...

Wen's visible hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... doubted for a single minute that this would be achieved... for China is a centrally-planned economy. Toe the line or the politburo will make you eat your toes. I've been half-Chinese long enough to understand this. The problem with all those hard landing ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... to do. And then there's China. So far there's only speculation of stimulus measures but this being the year when the politburo elects a new leader, I'll bet my right eye that there'll be several "prudent measures" that'll be announced if indicators continue ...

Dip buyers buy the dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... the LTRO, it did so again last month and it would do so again when the going gets tougher. China's proceeding as the politburo planned. The reported 8.1% growth in the first quarter confirms that the politburo's planned slowdown is working - as the politburo ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... for a 3.3% print and up from the previous month's 3.2% annual rate. Not good because rising inflation could limit the politburo's enthusiasm to stimulate growth. And where China goes, there Australia is. And it's not only China that the lucky country ...

What Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... imports outstripped a smaller 18.4% rise in exports. So what's the big deal? Didn't PM Wen explicitly state that the politburo is shifting the economy's reliance on exports and into domestic consumption? Wasn't that the plan all along? The rest of the ...

What hard landing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Hard landing? What hard landing? I told you so Virginia, what China's politburo wants, China's politburo gets. And certainly, they don't want their economy to land hard. PBOC to the rescue. Late last year, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut the reserve ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index. No surprises here too, not when China continues to defy those hard landing doomsayers. The politburo just won't let this happen, they said so themselves and the Shanghai Composite Index's 5.4% appreciation shows that investors ...

Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... economists are viewing China through capitalists' eyes. It is not! At their annual Central Economic Work conference, the politburo announced that, "China will ensure that macroeconomic regulation policies and overall consumer prices will remain basically ...

Another lonely night

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... their lowest levels since March 2009. But stand back and you'll find that we'll all be lonely if we believe that China's politburo would just sit back and let what led their economy to be the No. 2 in the world flush down the drain. In fact, they've ...