Nominal investment growth accelerated in Q1, leading to increased optimism over this year’s economic outlook. But adjusting the data for the jump in fixed asset price inflation suggests that underlying investment demand may actually have weakened last quarter, a trend which appears to be corroborated by the slowdown in construction output growth shown in China’s Q1 GDP breakdown.
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