China Trade Balance Surplus Bellow Consensus In September
(For September 2011)
China trade balance was reported at USD 14.5 billion vs. USD 17.8 billion in August and USD 16.3 billion consensus. Export and import growth were running at 17.1 and 20.9 percent vs. 24.5 and 30.2 percent y-o-y in June.
Slight slowdown, but nothing alarming here.