Chinese credit signals still more slowing

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February new yuan loans were out over the weekend and the slowing trend is intact. Total social financing came in at 1.17tr yuan of which banks made up 834bn:

The shadow bank share rebounded to 28%:

M2 rose slightly to 8.8%

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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.