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Flags out and party time shortly as we can have a Chinese New Year party. For the Chinese astrologers this should be a bold year of decision – whatever that means. As ever we are being fed highly unreliable data on the Chinese economy with every minute nuance being over-analysed. The only sensible way of approaching information on China is to remember that it is a huge developing nation and therefore will continue to grow at somewhere between 5% and 8%. Anything below 5% would in effect feel like a serious recession for a developing nation and China is certainly not in that situation.
At present all the media headlines are still full of a Chinese slowdown with all their usual doom laden interpretation. China will still continue to grow, but such views keep that alternative Chinese stockmarket index, the FTSE100, from breaching its all-time high. Thus one small breath that China’s economy might be ‘recovering’ and watch that index bust through the 7000 mark. Nothing to do with the UK economy but perversely it will impact indirectly on our confidence levels.
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