Nomura looked at China’s economy. Focus was August inflation.
CPI — that’s the consumer price index, the official cost-of-living number — went to 0.8%.
Is 0.8% high? Not really. China’s target is around 2%. So 0.8% is still low. It just rose from 0.5% in July.
And that 0.8% was not people spending more. It was oil and gold.
Food is still weak. Core inflation is only about 1%.
Loan rates didn’t move. Still 3% and 3.5%.