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What Chinese data does - and doesn't - tell you

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You can almost hear the sound of screeching brakes coming all the way from Beijing. The latest dump of data suggests industrial production grew at 6.8%, the slowest since 2008. Property values fell 15.8% and fixed asset investment growth is a poorly 1.03% for February.

The Chinese slowdown is well and truly here to stay says Pauline Loong, Managing Director of Asia-analytica Research and she guides us through the art of divining Chinese data and what it means for markets.