Chinese growth still strong

Wednesday, 14 March 2018

China’s Jan/Feb data dump is out and beat across the board with industrial production at 7.2%, fixed asset investment 7.9% and retail sales at 9.7%:

The usual early year distortion caveats apply.

Under the bonnet, however, the all-important realty sector is still slowing with sales down to a new low at 4.1% year on year:

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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.