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Is China Fudging Inflation Data?

October 26th, 2011
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Econintersect:  Simon Rabinovitch had an interesting article at the Financial Times last week.  He says that some analysts have discovered a big discrepancy in the data rported for price changes and the amount of implied price changes.  While the officia… more »

India Raises Rates Again

October 25th, 2011
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Econintersect:  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised a key lending rate for the 13th time in the past 18 months.  The rate at which RBI will lend to commercial banks was raised by 0.25% (25 basis points) to 8.5%.  The expectation that this would oc… more »

India: Another Rate Hike Coming?

October 21st, 2011
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by Sanjeev Kulkarni Econintersect:   If signals emanating from New Delhi and Reserve Bank are to be believed, another interest rate might be in the offing.  Food inflation figures are out and the latest is raging at worrisome 10.8 percent. Expert… more »

China: GDP Growth Remains Strong

October 18th, 2011
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Econintersect:  China has announced that 3Q/2011 GDP came in at 9.1% annualized rate of growth, down from 9.5% in the second quarter, according to Shanghai Daily.  The still robust growth is considered good news because China has been repeatedly tighteni… more »

Inflation Slows Slightly in China

October 15th, 2011
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Econintersect:  The National Bureau of Statistics has announced that the overall inflation rate in China fell to 6.1% in September (Consumer Price Index).  This is 0.1% lower than August and 0.4% below July, which saw inflation reach a 37-month high.  Th… more »

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