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B4 the Bell Frydaddy Oct 8, 2004


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Welcome to B4 the Bell.

 

Headline get your attention? It should because it's real, but believe it or not it's not the US - it's China and that data is since the first of the year. Marshall Auerback has some interesting thinsgs to say about the Chinese and the dollar.

 

As CLSA strategist Christopher Wood notes, ?The official focus in China on removing physical growth bottlenecks, while entirely understandable from the practical bottom-up point of view of an engineer, is without doubt leading to massive overinvestment given the undisciplined nature of the banking system?, a banking system which must be thoroughly reformed before any precipitous moves in the currency markets can be made. ........

 

.......... But have the Chinese overpaid (regarding Noranda) and does it in fact represent the future? Long-time China observers, such as Simon Hunt, note that China acquired a large range of physical commodities during the 2000-2001 recession (when prices were at rock bottom levels), and have historically been shrewd contrarian buyers. Therefore Hunt casts doubt as to whether this purchase actually represents the start of a significant new trend. He ascribes most of the noise surrounding the purchase (concomitant with the talk of revaluing the renminbi), as symptomatic of the usual speculative frenzy that one sees at the peak of commodity bull markets. Adding to Hunt?s skepticism, he further notes the simultaneous bursting of the housing and automobile bubbles in China, to which the markets have hitherto paid little attention:

 

?If the USA had seen a 60-70% fall in housing starts between the start of the year and August and a 38% fall in auto sales, markets there would be shaking. And yet markets appear oblivious to the facts.

 

Guess Who?s Coming To Dinner?

 

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Doolar, Earl and PMs all off a tad.

 

Make sure to get a front row seat for the jobs report, it ought to be a doozie. Snow was back pedaling, saying Florida will affect the numbers. Maybe he's gotten a preview? Maybe he's thinking about next months polling in Florida? Is he setting it up so that jobs "beat by a penny" ? Does he have a clue about what's really happening in this country? I'm pretty sure that this administration is as clueless about the economy as they appear to be about Iraq. Uh oh. :P

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I expect that employment figures will come in worse than consensus. Based on weak retail sales, hurricanes, and only modest credit growth in September, at best we may see only a modest increase in employment numbers (although prior months may be revised due to benchmark revisions).

 

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