The bank's senior economist, Frederic Neumann, highlights three reasons why investors should be worried as Asian growth appears predicated on pumping economies full of credit.
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IMF director for Asia and Pacific, Anoop Singh, sees room for policy change and is positive about domestic consumption, but says collective action on growth drivers in the region is needed.
Lombard Street Research’s Charles Dumas says the global economy will fall into recession and China won’t be able to help. US equities are best poised to lead investors to recovery.
Investment bank economists turn tail and run when asked by AsianInvestor to comment on how Li Keqiang analyses the Chinese economy.
Speaking at AsianInvestor’s institutional investor summit in Beijing, Zuo Xiaolei, chief economist at China Galaxy Securities, explains why things remain on track.
The country's output may decrease to as low as 7.5% in the first quarter next year, but this is a more sustainable level of growth, say China observers.
And deflation would reduce the value of inflation-linked assets, making them an attractive play, says the firm's chairman, Robert Arnott. But he's more concerned about record-high US debt levels.