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🇨🇳 Beijing lets the trade surplus do the talking while courts finally clear out dead property firms

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PPI rose 3.8% year-on-year in August, and the trade surplus topped $100bn for a fourth straight month. But courts and the securities regulator just made a bigger move: letting insolvent property developers fail instead of propping them up.

Screenshot of a Chinese NBS webpage explaining August CPI and PPI, with dense official text and section headings.
Mars argues China’s August rebound is splitting in two, with factory-gate prices firming faster than household purchasing power as energy and upstream commodities lead. Source

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