An employee wearing a mask arranges stacks of Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The People’s Bank of China has been quick to ensure accommodative monetary policy to keep the economy ticking during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Reuters An employee wearing a mask arranges stacks of Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The People’s Bank of China has been quick to ensure accommodative monetary policy to keep the economy ticking during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Reuters
An employee wearing a mask arranges stacks of Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The People’s Bank of China has been quick to ensure accommodative monetary policy to keep the economy ticking during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Reuters
Neal Kimberley
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Macroscope by Neal Kimberley

Coronavirus: Why markets can count on China’s economy to make a swift recovery after the crisis

  • Beijing is fighting to contain the epidemic, and it will surely kick-start the Chinese economy just as forcefully afterwards. This is simply the politically astute thing to do, given the public unease over Beijing’s handling of the crisis

Neal Kimberley
Neal Kimberley

Updated: 5:33am, 12 Feb, 2020

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An employee wearing a mask arranges stacks of Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The People’s Bank of China has been quick to ensure accommodative monetary policy to keep the economy ticking during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Reuters An employee wearing a mask arranges stacks of Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The People’s Bank of China has been quick to ensure accommodative monetary policy to keep the economy ticking during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Reuters
An employee wearing a mask arranges stacks of Chinese yuan notes at a bank in Nantong, Jiangsu province. The People’s Bank of China has been quick to ensure accommodative monetary policy to keep the economy ticking during the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Reuters
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Neal Kimberley

Neal Kimberley

UK-based Neal Kimberley has been active in the financial markets since 1985. Having worked in sales and trading in the dealing rooms of major banks in London for many years, he moved to ThomsonReuters in 2009 to provide market analysis. He has been contributing to the Post since 2015 and writes about macroeconomics from a market perspective, with a particular emphasis on currencies and interest rates.