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Investors become more sanguine on China

Over the last few weeks, investors have appeared to come round to our long-held view that fears of a hard landing in China were overdone. Energy and metals prices, in particular, benefited from the change in sentiment. Solid Chinese import growth, an upturn in the property market and growth in power generation have provided more tangible signs that looser policy in China is now feeding through to the real economy.

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