Deleveraging delusions, market exuberance

Policymakers are already billing the deleveraging campaign a success. But we doubt that the recent stabilisation of the debt ratio will prove durable. Meanwhile, Chinese equity prices have jumped beyond what is justified by easing trade tensions. With retail investors piling back in, the stock market risks becoming increasingly unmoored from the fundamentals.

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