{"id":547,"date":"2013-01-18T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/?p=547"},"modified":"2013-01-18T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T14:13:25","slug":"still-too-early-to-call-it-a-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/still-too-early-to-call-it-a-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Too Early To Call It A Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/2012\/08\/have-we-hit-bottom-yet\/\">previous posting<\/a>, we indicated that there could be a likely improvement in the 4th Qtr and it seems like our prediction was right. GDP grew by 7.8% for the year as recovery in industrial production and exports led to an increase in 4th Qtr growth of 7.9% that was slightly better than most economists were expecting. HSBC economists commented that the upside surprise in China&#8217;s fourth-quarter GDP data confirmed that the economy has officially exited its slowdown. Or has it?<\/p>\n<p>Our research does support an improvement in metal prices but we are yet to see reduction in certain stockpiles coupled with a more robust buy side for commodities generally. Let wait and see how the year ends for the Chinese and if there will be a decisive improvement in policies after March.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous posting, we indicated that there could be a likely improvement in the 4th Qtr and it seems like our prediction was right. GDP grew by 7.8% for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iris-commentary","tag-china","tag-economy","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/iris_banner.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2CPar-8P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iris-centre.com\/shanghai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}