With China offline for the rest of the week, global markets have found a new Asian bogeyman in the face of Japan which as reported last night saw its markets crash, and the Yen soar, showing that less than 2 weeks after the BOJ unveiled NIRP, yet another central bank has lost control.
By now it is common knowledge that China has a major debt problem at the macro level, one which may be even bigger than expected because according to at least one analysis by Rabobank, China's most recent debt has soared from the infamous McKinsey level of 282% as of mid 2014, to an unprecedented 346% currently.
The biggest event of the weekend, if not the month, was China's FX reserve outflow update, which at $100BN was slightly better than the $120BN expected (it pushed China's reserves to the lowest in nearly 4 years) but it was in the "no man's land" between the BofA best case scenario ($37.5BN), and the GS worst case ($197BN).
Who Really Needs A Gold Standard?
Written by Jeff Nielson (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL)
Bloomberg News recently made an astounding proclamation in a news release, by nothing less than postulating a return to a gold standard. Let me repeat. Bloomberg, a part of the mainstream media propaganda machine which often bashes all things related to gold (including the gold standard), is now advocating a return to a gold standard.
With China offline for the next seven days as its celebrates its Lunar New Year, here are 7 bullets from Evercore ISI to get everyone up to speed on the latest developments in the world's most troubled "growth" economy.
Evercore ISI China Weekly Summary
No one can remember (and we can't think up) more than 7 bullets on anything. Here, this week's top China 7.