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  1. China Growth Tracker: Divergence Continues

    Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

    We published a note on how to track Chinese growth in real time using financial and commodity market prices. In these weekly reports, we update the indicators to help us track growth. Summary The overall growth tracker is flat-lining, but individual indicators are diverging – mobility/congestion looks solid, but port activity, auto sales are soft. […]

  2. China Growth Tracker: Divergence

    Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

    Summary Mobility indicators continue to improve, but other indicators like port activity and the YiCai economy index are starting to flatline. Existing home prices are stabilizing in Tier 1 and 2 cities, but transactions fell back this week. Our Growth Tracker is starting to show mixed trends under the hood. While mobility-based indicators continued to […]

  3. China Growth Tracker: Property Transactions Improve

    Mirza Baig

    Summary Property transaction volumes picked up sharply last week in Tier 1 & 2 cities. Our sample data on prices suggests prices in those cities firmed as well. The drop in October PMIs was at odds with our growth tracker, which broadly suggests activity is stable or improving gradually. The overall growth tracker remains supported […]

  1. China Growth Tracker: Activity Recovery Extends

    Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

    High frequency activity-based indicators continue to tick higher, though the improvement is not broad-based. In aggregate, our tracker suggests the official composite PMI next week will print around 53.0.

  2. China Growth Tracker: Tier 1 Property Prices Improve Following New Policies

    Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

    Property prices improved in Tier 1 cities but not in Tier 2 and 3 cities following the implementation of new policies.

  3. China Growth Tracker: Holiday Spending Improves, But Property Slump Persists

    Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

    Holiday travel and spending improved sequentially but remains below the pre-Covid level. Mobility indicators suggest activity remained strong post-holiday, while property indicators suggest the slump has persisted.  

China Growth Tracker – Picking Up!

Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

Mobility based indicators improved further heading into the long nation-wide holidays. We are now tracking for a solid beat in the composite PMI for September vs. consensus expectation of 52.0.

China Growth Tracker: Property Rebound Underwhelms, Consumption Ticks Higher (New Indicator Added)

Mirza Baig, Liang Ding

We have included high frequency indicators of the property market – weekly property transaction and prices. These show an underwhelming recovery so far.  

  1. China Growth Tracker: Is Beijing’s Plan to Boost the Economy Working? 

    Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

    Our high-frequency China growth tracker has picked up since last week on stronger domestic road congestion data, particularly in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. We also see prices of economically sensitive commodities like iron ore continue to rise, as is the Baltic Dry index.

  2. China Growth Tracker: Re-Opening Index Stabilises

    Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

    Overall, our high-frequency China reopening index continues to stabilise, although our travel indicator (which looks at road congestion and subway traffic) looks to be stalling.

  3. China Growth Tracker: Re-Opening Index Stabilises

    Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

    Our high-frequency China reopening index appears to have found a solid base while our market data-based China growth tracker has further improved.

China Growth Tracker: Economics Data Remains Pessimistic

Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

Our high-frequency China reopening index appears to have found a solid base while our market data-based China growth tracker has further improved.

China Growth Tracker: Plenty of Pessimistic Details

Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

Our high-frequency China reopening index has pared its preliminary spike higher and is now only marginally higher than levels seen in June. Our China growth tracker based on market data continues to improve, though our economic data-based tracker saw a strong preliminary weakening through July on the back of PMIs.

  1. China Growth Tracker: Potential for Stronger-than-Forecasted July PMIs

    Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

    Our high-frequency China reopening index has improved sharply over the past two weeks, in line with Singapore crack spreads.

  2. China Growth Tracker: Market-Based Tracker Diverging from Hard Data

    Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

    Our high-frequency China reopening index pared recent positivity as port data worsened.

  3. China Growth Tracker: July PMI to Increase from June

    Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

    Our high-frequency China reopening index has stormed higher, suggesting a bounce in the July composite PMI.

China Growth Tracker – ‘Reopening Tracker’ Suggests Improving PMI for July

Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

Our high-frequency China reopening index has continued its rebound, which suggests positivity ahead for the composite PMI.

China Growth Tracker: China 2023 Optimism Losing Steam

Bilal Hafeez, Ben Ford

The World Bank raised their forecast of real Chinese growth to 5.6% for 2023. This sits in contrast with private forecasts which have become less optimistic over the past month. Looking forward, downward forecast revisions may slow; our reopening index suggests the China PMI could lead higher next month.

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