The macro backdrop behind Evergrande’s latest profit warning is a rapidly cooling property market. Home sales have fallen below 2019 levels in recent weeks, with the prop to demand from excess household savings built up earlier in the pandemic fading. Meanwhile, China’s reluctance to embrace foreign vaccines that would aid its fight against COVID-19 was on show this week.
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