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Wenzhou – where the bailouts start

The readiness of Beijing to order rescue efforts for Wenzhou companies hit by the shadow banking crisis is representative of a wider imperative to launch assistance initiatives in several parts of the economy.

Wenzhou credit crisis

Executives are fleeing to avoid "usurious" lending rates within the region's shadow banking system.

Crisis-hit Wenzhou tells banks to lend to private enterprises

City authorities in Wenzhou, a prosperous private business hub south of Shanghai, have ordered emergency measures to combat a credit crunch that has already prompted over 20 private enterprise bosses to flee the city and one to commit suicide.

China's inflation cools YoY and MoM in August

Pork prices ease, driving down CPI

Beware the shadow banks!

It is time to raise the alarm. China’s shadow banking system is huge - according to our latest calculations - and increasingly risky.

Will the recent rate hike tame inflation?

Commentators discuss the Central Bank’s monetary policy stance in 2H11.

China rate hike does not herald hard landing

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) announced it will raise benchmark lending and deposit rates by 25 basis points each, effective Thursday. We think the move reveals pre-emptive action ahead of high inflation numbers to be announced later this month but we do not think this rate hike significantly increases the remote possibility of a hard landing for GDP growth later this year

Beware a crisis in underground banking

As things stand, there appears to be little to prevent the clear stress in the underground banking system from developing into private enterprise crisis.

When will inflation start to abate?

Commentators discuss the fate of inflation which hit a 34-month high in May according to official figures.

Slowing land sales portend easing fixed-asset investment

Land sales are so central to local government finances that their current slowdown suggests an easing in fixed-asset investment.

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