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03.03.17China’s Legislators Take on Zombie Companies, Real Estate
Curbing wasteful socialist-era business practices and taming unruly real estate and lending sectors will take center stage at the annual meeting of China’s legislature, which starts next week, with some also looking for signs of a pickup in economic...
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01.17.17China’s Oil Collapse Is Unintentionally Helping OPEC
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OPEC’s campaign to prop up oil prices is getting unlikely support from its biggest customer.
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05.01.12China’s Impact on World Commodity Markets
Luo Xiaoyuan
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Shocks to aggregate activity in China have a significant and persistent short-run impact on the price of oil and some base metals. In contrast, shocks to apparent commodity-specific consumption (in part reflecting inventory demand) have no effect on...