Despite all the shadow banking system hand-wringing, macro-data-collapsing, real-estate-bubble-bursting, stock-market-tumbling reality facing the China; somehow, China's official government manufacturing PMI just printed 50.8 - its highest in 2014 and the 20th month of expansion in a row. Given the mini-stimulus efforts of the government, perhaps it is not surprising that the official (more SOE-biased) data signals all-clear (when HSBC's PMI is still in contraction for the 5th month in a row). The employment sub-index fell to a 3-month lows and the Steel industry's output and new orders has cratered... So what's wrong with this chart?
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Charts: Bloomberg