China’s leading index plateaus

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Late yesterday, the Conference Board released its Leading Indicators for China in September with a small increase following some big jumps in prior months:

As you can see, there has been much movement in the index all year. There LI things have some questions to answer, though China’s offical version seems to work quite well.

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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.