Another China Rescue Plan
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Why did the Chinese Politburo announce early fiscal and monetary stimulus and how did it surprise markets?
Well, we weren't expecting it till later in the week, but the Politburo has gone early with news on how it plans to help the Chinese economy recover with fiscal and monetary stimulus next year. We'll look at what was said. It certainly had a big impact on markets, particularly in uh Chinese equities, but it also pushed the Aussie a bit higher and the RBA today and the NAB business survey for November as well. It's Tuesday, the tenth of December, twenty twenty four. It's the morning call from NAB. Good morning. Well, the US dollar has been up and down today. It's up about naught point one percent now, uh just below one oh six point two on the DXY, whereas the Aussie dollar is up naught point seven percent, the pound is unchanged, the euro down naught point two per cent, the yen down about naught point eight percent.
Bond yields are mixed, so up four basis points for ten year treasuries, uh up to four point two percent, but down one basis point for UK ten year GILTs, Aussie ten years yesterday. Yesterday were down two basis points to four point two per cent. Now on futures though up to four point two seven per cent. So quite a climb. And US equities closed down at the finish, quite a bit down, actually a naught point six per cent falling the Nasdaq and the S P. The Dow is half percent lower. The Russell two thousand is down naught point seven per cent. But in Europe, well the CAT current is up naught point seven per cent. The FTSE one hundred closed up half a per cent. The DAX is down Point two per cent and oil today quite a bit higher as well.
WTI is up one point four percent, Brent up one point one per cent to almost seventy two a barrel. A lot of those moves make sense when we start talking about what happened in China.
What details did Ken Crompton share about the unexpected Chinese stimulus announcement?
So Ken Compton is with me today uh 'cause we got word from the Politburo a lot earlier than we thought we would. We were expecting something later in the week, but you know, I'm reading the headline for example, yeah. I mean it's all over the press, but the South China Morning Post saying Politburo promises active moves to bolster domestic demand in 2025. So it's wanting to boost demand, stabilize property and stock markets. They're basically going to do it with a mix of uh fiscal and monetary policy. So uh yeah, perhaps more than we expected, and certainly sooner than we expected.
Yeah, morning Phil. I think there was a building consensus that we wouldn't probably see too much out of the the Politburo meeting or the Central Economic Work Conference meeting this week, just because there was a feeling that the um you know the the the central planners in China might wait until we got a bit more detail out of what the Trump administration's sort of actual on the ground policies next year would be before they gave us too much. But um look maybe this is a preemptive preemptive strike. Uh Yeah, announcement out last night, Australian time. And I th once again there's probably a little bit there's a little bit light on actual detail at this point, but certainly the the sentiment of uh of greater support out of from policymakers has been uh a positive for for Chinese um equities, which rallied pretty strongly, I think about three percent or so on the on the Heng Sang in that last hour um of trading there after this was announced.
I guess the thing that I'm looking at is um you know what's the actual detail going to be here. We've been through so many rounds, you know, starting with September with the the the sort of gradual um rollout of monetary easing, the vague announcements on fiscal support. Well actually to be fair, maybe not necessarily vague, but um but pointing more towards um you know local government balance sheet support and um sorting out some of the bad property debt in the banking sector, which needs to be done but is probably not sort of the big all in stimulus that the um yeah the but the markets or some western markets in particular that want to export large amounts of commodities into China are are are looking for and I'm not sure this actually adds too much to that um
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did the Chinese Politburo announce early fiscal and monetary stimulus and how did it surprise markets?
0:01–1:32
2
What details did Ken Crompton share about the unexpected Chinese stimulus announcement?
1:32–3:44
3
How has China’s policy language shifted to ‘moderately loose’ and what does it imply for fiscal deficits?
3:44–5:51
4
What are analysts waiting for after China’s stimulus news and what could the upcoming details reveal?
5:51–7:07
5
Will the latest Chinese policy moves affect the RBA’s outlook and the Borge expectations?
7:07–8:50
6
What should investors watch for in today’s RBA meeting and press conference?
8:50–11:18
7
How might the RBA’s press conference address the softer GDP figures and future rate decisions?
11:18–13:10
8
What impact could Google’s quantum computing breakthrough have on markets and tech outlook?
13:10–13:39