The author is chief China economist at Capital Economics Mark Williams The final reading of the HSBC/Markit manufacturing PMI for December came in at 50.5. This was unchanged from the flash estimate and squarely in line with expectations (both our forecast and the Bloomberg median were 50.5). It is the weakest reading since September. This […]

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