China Car Sales Suffer Biggest Crash On Record To Start 2016
- China Car Sales Suffer Biggest Crash On Record To Start 2016
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
The dream of transition to a ‘consuming’ economy just crashed into the wall of excess debt and leverage. 2016 has started with a 44% collapse in China passenger car sales. This is the biggest sequential crash and is 50% larger than any other plunge in history.
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While there is a seasonal effect here obviously, the sheer scale of this 2-month drop – which removes the new year holiday affect – indicates something is terribly wrong in China.
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Coming at a time when vehicle inventories are near record highs relative to sales with a mal-investment-driven excess inventory-to-sales at levels only seen once before in 24 years…
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