Weak RMB inhibits easing, consumption takes a hit

The PBOC has been trying to offer support to the economy this week without lowering its policy rates, but a desire to stabilise the exchange rate constrains what it can do. That’s a problem for the economic outlook: the latest data are worse than the headlines suggest.

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