China’s April data remains muted

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China has released its monthly data dump this afternoon for April and the news is more (mild) disappointment. Industrial production growth came in at 9.5% versus 9.5% expected. Fixed asset investment also missed at 20.6% versus 21% and retail sales came in on the button at 12.8%.

The dollar was sticking its nose through parity before the release. It’s now slipped beneath the waves.

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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.