Monitoring for contagion

Our China Activity Proxy (CAP) estimate for China’s rate of growth in December is somewhat academic at this point but, for what it’s worth, it showed the economy holding up well. Measures to constrain the new coronavirus will have dealt a sizeable blow to activity since then. The CAP suggests that a key determinant of how bad the damage ends up being is whether disruption spreads to industry.

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