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CNBC’s Tyler Mathisen reports China’s economy grew 6.8 percent in the Q4 of 2015.

Following China’s growth slowing to 1999 levels in Q3 (but beating expectations with the mirage of a mysteriously large drop in the deflator), all eyes were on tonight’s data, most notably the deflator (especially following the trade data debacle from last week).

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China December Industrial production, retail sales and fixed investment data results
Industrial Production 5.9% y/y – a MISS
– expected 6.0%, prior 6.2%
Industrial Production (December) YTD 6.1% y/y

The Q4 GDP data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics
Q4 GDP 6.8% y/y … a slight miss on the consensus expectations
–     expected 6.9%, prior was 6.9%
it’s the YTD that’s in at 6.9%

An early leak of the China Q4 GDP
The Beijing News reporting
Bloomberg with the headline

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?—Langston Hughes, “Harlem”

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