China’s growth will not be enough to avert price declines

In keeping with much of this week’s China data, today’s flash estimate of the manufacturing PMI supports our view that the economy is heading for a soft landing in 2012. However, we still do not think this will be sufficient to prevent further falls in the prices of industrial commodities.

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