{"id":18762,"date":"2012-05-01T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=18762"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:37:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:37:06","slug":"china-is-slowing-charting-pmi-and-leading-indicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/china-is-slowing-charting-pmi-and-leading-indicators\/","title":{"rendered":"China is Slowing &#8211; Charting PMI and Leading Indicators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much awaited manufacturing index for China was released overnight. We have been seeing a sharp weakening in the Flash Index which is a private report by HSBC. In other words it is not the &#8220;official&#8221; numbers prepared by the Chinese government. There is plenty of skepticism when it comes the &#8220;official&#8221; data from China, so it is good to reference both as it provides <!--more-->balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chinapmi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13209\" title=\"chinapmi\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chinapmi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Expectations were for a reading of 53.6 and the actual number came in at 53.3. This is better than last month&#8217;s of 53.1, but still a disappointment and shows that there is limited growth on the heels of Europe&#8217;s slowdown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aside from that, the Leading Indicators were released yesterday and that has been trending down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chinaleading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13210\" title=\"chinaleading\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/chinaleading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much awaited manufacturing index for China was released overnight. We have been seeing a sharp weakening in the Flash Index which is a private report by HSBC. In other words it is not the &#8220;official&#8221; numbers prepared by the Chinese government. There is plenty of skepticism when it comes the &#8220;official&#8221; data from China, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-18762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}