China Trade Surplus Crashes As Exports & Imports Collapse In March!

- World economy is in BIG trouble. Don’t let the lying MSM tell you otherwise.
– - China Trade Surplus Crashes As Exports & Imports Collapse In March!
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
Forget the weather, it must be the smog. China just announced total carnage in its trade data for March:
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* CHINA’S MARCH IMPORTS FALL 12.3% Y/Y IN YUAN TERMS; EST. -11.3%
* CHINA’S MARCH EXPORTS FALL 14.6% Y/Y IN YUAN TERMS; EST. +8.2%
* CHINA’S MARCH TRADE SURPLUS 18.16 BILLION YUAN; EST 250B YUAN
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So what exactly was the Chinese stock market ‘discounting’?
Trade Surplus collapses… (economists knew about year-end and forecast +250bn!!!)
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In US Dollars the picture is worse…
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* CHINA’S MARCH EXPORTS FALL 15.0% FROM YEAR EARLIER
* CHINA’S MARCH IMPORTS FALL 12.7% FROM YEAR EARLIER
* CHINA’S MARCH TRADE SURPLUS $3.08 BILLION
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