China FDI falls again in January

Wednesday 20 February 2013

Chinese FDI fell 7.3% in January, well ahead of consensus at -4.2%.

So, China is not so hot right among foreign businesses. Theses declines have been running for over a year now and it will be interesting to if its cyclical or some structural shift as China climbs the value chain.

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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.