Following the biggest crash in Chinese stocks in 8 years on Monday (following regulator’s crackdown on margin trading), The Shanghai Composite has now retraced all those losses as China’s Manufacturing PMI rises and beats modestly (though remains technically in contraction at 49.8 for the 2nd month). HSBC notes marginal domestic demand improvements but employment and prices continued to deteriorate hinting at a continued manufacturing slowdown (which stocks love – bad news is good news).