China’s official PMI miss spanks dollar, stocks

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Uh oh, guess that hard landing ain’t over. China official PMI for May just hit the tape and missed expectations, barely managing to expand at 50.4 versus expectations of 52.

The internals were ugly too, with new orders and exports hit plus inventories rising.

Neither the dollar nor stocks enjoyed it one little bit.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.