Reuters (November 11)
“Signs of weakness are emerging” across the Chinese economy where “exports fell; inflation slowed; new bank lending tumbled…. Despite the authorities bucking the global trend… and deploying monetary and fiscal easing this year.” The “unexpectedly weak run of Chinese economic data” raises “the heat on policymakers to deliver more stimulus measures, but it also shows the limited effect more monetary easing and infrastructure spending can have.”
Tags: Bank lending, Economy, Emerging, Exports, Fiscal, Global trend, Inflation, Infrastructure spending, Limited effect, Monetary easing, Signs, Stimulus, Tumbled, Weak, Weakness
Washington Post (November 4)
“This week has brought a flurry of speculation over the possibility that Beijing might alter course nearly three years into the pandemic. Investors are watching for signs of recovering demand in China, the world’s second-largest economy, and an end to disruptions to manufacturing and transport that have affected global supply chains.”
Tags: Beijing, China, Disruptions, Economy, Investors, Manufacturing, Pandemic, Possibility, Recovering demand, Signs, Speculation, Transport
The Guardian (October 23)
“As the leader enters his third term, there are increasing signs that the country is turning inwards, replacing the outside world with cyber ‘reality.’” It looks like “the China of the 2020s may be considerably less open than the one we have known for some four decades from the 1980s to 2020.”
Tags: 2020s, China, Cyber ‘reality’, Inwards, Leader, Open, Outside world, Signs
The Economist (May 28)
Signs suggest “America’s markets are entering a new, more worrying phase.” Falling share prices could initially be attributed to the Federal Reserve’s policy moves, but “in recent weeks share prices have kept falling, even as bond yields have dropped back,” a combination suggesting recession. “Indeed, the mix of Fed tightening, slowing gdp and rising production costs has the ominous feel of the later stages of a business cycle. The expansion is barely two years old. Yet investors are already worried that corporate profits are under threat.”
Tags: Bond yields, Business cycle, Expansion, Falling, Fed, GDP, Investors, Markets, Ominous, Production costs, Profits, Recession, Share prices, Signs, Tightening, U.S., Worried, Worrying
Washington Post (July 15)
“All signs suggest it’s closing on his presidency because of his world-class incompetence with the coronavirus pandemic, the protracted economic collapse that resulted, and the increasingly overt racism Trump has embraced.
Tags: Coronavirus, Economic collapse, Incompetence, Pandemic, Presidency, Racism, Signs, Trump
