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| | | ... 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% ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
| | | | ... 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 ... |
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