China’s manufacturing PMI growth slows

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China official PMI just just printed 50.4 for January, below consensus at 51. The chart shows you how slow and to date muted this rebound is.

The internals were not great either.

Local new orders accelerated slightly but exports shrank. Inventories of raw materials climbed but finished goods fell as did employment.

No tearaway rebound here but not panic stations either. Dollar got whacked 30 pips.

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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.