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New quarter, same old China PMIs
Asian market trading on Monday kicks off the new week, quarter and second half of the year with investors' focus locked on a data-heavy economic calendar, especially the latest snapshot of Chinese factory activity. The Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers index report for June will go a long way to showing whether the recovery in the world's second largest economy is gathering momentum, struggling, or going into reverse. China bulls will be hoping it's the former. Some indicators in the first half of the year pointed in that direction, but the overall picture was pretty bleak - growth is patchy, deflation risks ... (full story)