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Macro: CX Daily: Balancing China’s Development With Need for Food Production and more

In today’s briefing:

  • CX Daily: Balancing China’s Development With Need for Food Production
  • CX Daily: Why Newly Listed Chinese Stocks Fall Below Their IPO Prices
  • Turkish Lira Takes the Helm as the Worst-Performing EM Currency

CX Daily: Balancing China’s Development With Need for Food Production

By Caixin Global

  • Cover Story: Balancing China’s development with need for food production

  • Beijing drops more Covid rules as outbreak declared ‘under control’

  • China’s services activity shrinks a little less severely, Caixin PMI shows


CX Daily: Why Newly Listed Chinese Stocks Fall Below Their IPO Prices

By Caixin Global

  • Caixin Explains: Why newly listed Chinese stocks fall below their IPO prices

  • Court ruling triggers debate on assisted reproductive rights of single women

  • China’s polluting industries allowed to issue bonds to fund low-carbon transition


Turkish Lira Takes the Helm as the Worst-Performing EM Currency

By Gautam Jain, PhD, CFA

  • The Turkish lira has become the worst-performing currency this year as the central bank is holding the policy rate steady despite sharply accelerating inflation, leading to highly negative real rates.
  • The lira is effectively in a vicious cycle: weakening currency adds to inflationary pressures, which with the central bank on hold means real rates become more negative, hurting the currency.
  • High inflation is also weighing on the economic outlook, which combined with worsening current account and fiscal deficits and depleting international reserves, is adding to the depreciation pressure.

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