The author is ANZ greater China chief economist Liu Li-Gang China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), the bellwether of large industrial firms, picked up modestly to 50.4 in April from March’s 50.3, generally in line with market expectations. In the meantime, the HSBC PMI, representing a group of private-sector and small and medium enterprises, also […]

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