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phil
April 3rd, 2014 at 7:30 am
China announces mini-stimulus to keep economy on even keel
02:26 AM ET · FXI
• China’s State Council has unveiled another mini-stimulus package as part of an attempt to stabilize slowing growth even as the government looks to reform the economy so that it relies less on the state sector.
• “There’s a balance,” says Mark Williams of Capital Economics. “The leadership wants to push ahead with reform, but it’s aware that it has to maintain confidence.”
• The program includes selling 150B yuan ($24.6B) in bonds for railway construction and creating a development fund of 200-300B yuan a year for a similar purpose, improved housing for those on low incomes, and tax relief for struggling small companies.
• The measures had already been announced but not as a package to boost GDP, while the program is a bit of a re-run of a mini-stimulus that China introduced last year to lift flagging growth.
• The State Council didn’t say whether monetary policy would be loosened – the dilemma for the government is that it’s also trying to rein in soaring lending.
• State Council statement
• Meanwhile, China’s official non-manufacturing PMI slipped to 54.5 in March from 55 in February, while the HSBC services PMI rose to 51.9 from 51.
• The Shanghai Composite is -0.95%, while the Hang Seng is +0.2%.
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