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End of the China bull?

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There has to be a move brought about by the imbalance soon .

The capitalization is not really a revenue party , more an investment by-product .

Inflation , they're importing it daily , we're exporting it . There has to be a development somewhere due to this .

What is a mystery is whether they have enough domestic consumer revenues to sustain growth levels , whilst someone ...... anyone tries to cool inflation .

China has been feeding a stagflated US economy since 1999 in real terms , the inflation monster has just about eaten one sector ( housing ) , just like fire , if it finds new fuel .........

The benefit I see in China is all the land , loads of it . But land needs time to be developed into something .

The decoupling theories , well , I'm more incline to think they can't escape damage , nobody can . The amount of damage in the short to medium term that can be sustained is probably what all the analysts are waiting to see , I don't think they're going to be down and out though , just a slower , but with a direction still .

The markets , they look ripe for a clean up , new shop , must be time for their first fire sale .............
 
Just as they had a cultural purge, I would envisage a financial purge to expunge all the dead wood ie bank non conformers etc before going on to be the sustainable force of the future. In fact, a global recession would help their internal economy as it would lower their costs. After the purge - now that would be a bull worth getting in on the ground floor.
 
Inflation importing gathers pace....

CHINA'S Pearl River Delta - the southern coastal area that in the past two decades has become the world's factory floor for low-end goods -- is losing thousands of factories.

 Rising costs and tighter regulations are making the region less competitive than other Asian manufacturing hubs, including other parts of China.
New labour laws and higher taxes for foreign-invested companies, combined with tougher environmental rules and a strengthening Chinese currency, are squeezing Chinese companies that make labor-intensive products such as toys, clothing and furniture.


This year "will likely mark the year (China) manufacturers were finally forced to take a general hit on profitability", UBS economist Jonathan Anderson said in a note.


The Federation of Hong Kong Industries estimates 10 per cent of the 60,000 to 70,000 Hong Kong-owned factories in the delta region will close this year - likely the highest rate of closures in 20 years, deputy chairman Stanley Lau says.


Some of these operations have been closed for good, some moved inland, and some relocated outside China.



http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23273438-36375,00.html

The shift in China's light-manufacturing sector is sending ripples around the world. Factory owners are looking beyond Guangdong and the Delta - where the cost of living, and hence, wages, has become relatively high - to new locations deeper inside China, where they can enjoy lower costs and investment incentives from local governments eager to attract businesses.

In some cases, they are also turning to poorer countries with lower wage levels. That means new investment and assembly-line jobs in countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh - and possibly longer, more-complex supply chains for big buyers such as Wal-Mart.

Those changes are being driven by fierce pressure to keep prices low for overseas buyers. Prices for Chinese exports have already been rising at a quickened pace in recent years, and the new increases in labor and other costs could translate into even more expensive products for consumers and companies in the US and Europe - just as economists are worried about a possible recession in the US.
 
True Unc.
We have exported our inflation and now we will be importing it instead.

I am scared we are entering a high inflation, low growth environment. The investments people will need to own to survive this will be somewhat different to the recent bull market we have enjoyed.
 
No slow down in the China bubble yet


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=az._lZa5plJA&refer=home
 
Most people forget that the Chinese currency has been undervalued and there is a massive domestic market that will pick up excess supply of goods that the US now cannot afford.

 
Stormin_Norman said:
Most people forget that the Chinese currency has been undervalued and there is a massive domestic market that will pick up excess supply of goods that the US now cannot afford.
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If only it were that simple. The data coming out of China is pointing to several 'runaway' spirals - large wage rises to offset larger cost of living increases. Food & energy prices are rising faster than wages, so they are net worse off eg price inflation is eroding any offset by higher wages.

But the problem then becomes the lot of the employer, as they have to either trim their already low profit margins or pass costs on. Some manufacturers have already started to move their operations to cheaper parts of China, and even to Vietnam & Africa.

I'd like to see how they are going to pass on the recent steel price increases of the order of 65%. Pass it on to the rest of the worlds consumers as inflation or reduce their own profits. A tight squeeze indeed!

Normal financial rules assume that to stay in business a company must be at least profitable. This does not apply in China as it it common for marginal or even loss making industries and companies to be subsidised by the State via the banking system. This will have to be addressed if the China model is to be sustainable. The days of reckoning are getting closer.

So the idea of having all these millions of new consumers just waiting at the gates of commo capitalism is a bit of a furphy, as the main advantage up till now has been cheap labour, but prices are effectively rising faster than wages can keep up, that is, if many of these formerly rural workers can even find work after migrating to the big manufacturing centres.

So while they may be getting paid more, it's not the sort of wage that will sustain any sort of discretionary consumerism of the type of goods that western society takes for granted. The majority are doing their best just to survive.

This could lead to far bigger social consequences as the lifestyle gap between peasant rural regions and cities becomes bigger. They are faced with huge problems, not only financial but social unrest, that may end in violence and maybe the end of communism in it's present form.
 
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...14-3C01-468A-9C11-B7596BCE1A35}&dist=hplatest
 
Uncle Festivus said:
I agree with everything said
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An over pegged currency is causing china internal inflation too. this keeps internally produced goods at a higher price then natural. this fuels inflation as external revenues come in.

the reduction in the peg price of the chinese currency would make chinese produced products cheaper by the % of the reduction to the local market.

so far in china's development they have overpriced their currency, in effect raising the price of chinese goods in china. and lowering the price of chinese goods in america.

ripping their own people off while allowing walmart cheap crap to sell. hence the massive trade balances china is holding. theyre goods are artificially cheap in the world market, and artificially high in their domestic market.

im sure their central bank would be close to holding as much USD as american banks themselves given the trade surpluses a lower currency allows them to run.
 
mmm...
 
China's trade surplus narrowed 63 percent in February, to $8.7 billion, as exports rose 6.5 percent””the slowest pace in six years.

The unexpected decline was attributed largely to the effects of the new year holiday and winter storms that closed some factories and delayed shipping.

"We think the sharp slowdown in China's export growth in February is temporary," Mingchun Sun, an economist with Lehman Brothers, said in a report to clients, according to the Associated Press.

More troubling is another report that shows that Beijing is struggling to keep inflation under control.

The National Bureau of Statistics says producer prices for manufactured goods rose 6.6 percent in February from a year ago, while prices for raw materials, fuel, and power rose 9.7 percent from a year ago.

The government has been wrestling with an acceleration in consumer inflation, driven largely by higher food prices as a result of shortages of pork and other foodstuffs.

But the producer price report indicates that the price pressures are being felt throughout the economy, potentially raising the costs of goods sent to the United States.

"Virtually everything is on the rise””not just fuel, but coal and iron ore””all these things are growing much stronger than fuel, plus labor costs are going up too," Jun Ma, chief China economist at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong
 
.........China's Shanghai Composite took the biggest hit, slumping 5.4% to 3,411.49, a level it hasn't seen since April. The Shanghai index, which nearly doubled in 2007, has lost more than 35% to date in 2008, ranking as one of the worst performers among Asian benchmarks.........

.........Shares of Baoshan Iron & Steel, the mainland's largest steelmaker, tumbled 9%, after it reported a 3% decline in 2007 net income on higher costs, disappointing the market.
Shares of other steelmakers also dropped, with Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. sinking 8.9% and Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. losing 5.4%..........

Increases in raw material costs are flowing through = lower profits + inflation. How can I short China?
 

By going long Aussie Manufacture.


cheers
 
Uncle Festivus said:
Yes, but do we still have one of those?
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Yeh a bit early yet but as China's labor costs rise secondary industries will emerge off our resources, like smelting then rolling our own steel. Penny with this approach will soon drop with the new government IMHO. But will take years and huge investment.
 
is it labour costs that are responsible for the rising costs or the 65% rise in iron ore prices?
 
Some wealth destruction capitalist style for the communists?

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Frustrated mainland Chinese investors, who have watched the country's main stock market in Shanghai plummet more than 40% since October, have been wondering when their typically hands-on government will move to reverse the fall.


The word from Beijing: It just might not.

Repeated calls for China's financial authorities to prop up the country's sharply deflated stock market have gone largely unanswered as the government directs its focus on combating inflation. That's a surprise to many Chinese investors, who are used to government control of everything from the price of gasoline to how many children they can have.

To make matters worse, they've also seen the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and rescue Wall Street investment banks to keep the U.S. financial system running smoothly, which has perked up stocks.
"The U.S. government is intervening to boost the markets, why can't China?" said Xu Xiaonian, professor of economics and finance at China Europe International Business School, in a telephone interview.



Chinese financial authorities have taken smaller steps to make it easier for new money to come into the market, but those actions have failed to diminish the deep decline in China's benchmark indexes. The government has so far resisted making a bigger move by cutting trading taxes.
To a high degree, its reluctance to intervene in the country's stock market stems from having a more urgent priority, tackling the highest inflation China has experienced in nearly a dozen years. Plus, there's no agreement among the financial arms of the central government on how to handle the stock crash. The central bank, which reports directly to the top authorities, has no direct authority over the stock market.
Nevertheless, China's new class of individual investors is clamoring for changes. Enticed by the rapid gains in the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which vaulted more than five times in less than two years, millions of individuals ploughed their family savings into the stock market.
They've already lost a lot. The Shanghai Composite has tumbled to below 3,500 from October's all-time high of nearly 6,100. Company stock valuations have cratered to about 40 times earnings per share from about 70 times. Household fortunes have evaporated, sparking calls for the government to step in.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...x?guid={3C72D2E9-E9BC-43FB-97BA-261701D15D96}
 
Perhaps the chinese sharemarket isn't a good representation of whether the bull is still alive, or not. Will the punters on the exchange bring down their economy? Is that possible?


Will be more interesting to see the next quarters results as it may be a better indication of any fallout from global slow down over the past few months.

 
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