GDP, real estate, steel, credit, you name it, the full China data dump analysed!

Friday 15 July 2016

China has released its full June QTR data dump and it’s a little firmer than expected but under the bonnet clearly softening. GDP was 6.7% beating 6.6% expected:

Industrial production was 6.2% and in a stable trend beating 5.9% expected:

Fixed asset investment was weak at 9% missing 9.4% expected and the downtrend is intact:

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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.