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Four and a half reasons not to worry about China’s slowdown

The relative weakness of China’s Q1 GDP and March activity data has reinforced concerns about the impact of softer demand on global commodity markets. But in contrast to the consensus, we remain sanguine about the latest developments in the world’s most important consumer of industrial metals.


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