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April 16, 2012

High Oil Prices Behind China's Slowdown?

Craig Stephen, MarketWatch


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While bad news is highly effective at selling newspapers, it tends to work the opposite way for sell-side analysts: Being perennially gloomy is a surefire way of finding yourself out of a job. And when it comes to the enigma that is China’s economy, perhaps a default position of optimism is even more important. . .

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