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Weak to the end of Q1

The Capital Economics China Activity Proxy (CAP) suggests that the economy remained weak throughout Q1. The fading of a “leap year effect” made little difference: last quarter’s slowdown was not simply, as some have suggested, a statistical glitch.

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