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Market slide stemmed, property strained, tariffs loom

A promise of support from the People’s Bank helped stem the slide in both the renminbi and Shanghai equities today. If declines resume next week, we would expect more forceful intervention to support both markets. Meanwhile, it has been a bad week for property developers and we suspect more pain lies ahead. And the clock is ticking on tariffs: as things stand, both China and the US will be implementing them in a week’s time.

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