Archived IMT (2010.02.12)

Our WARNING YESTERDAY about a Chinese tightening to possibly occur as EARLY AS today http://bit.ly/bIDfca following those stronger than expected new bank loasn figures. Most pundits spoke about softer than expected CPI dissuading PBOC from tightening but we focused on the Loans Data.

We also broke the Chinese tightening (and implications for markets) on Twitter 20 seconds after it broke on teh wires and about 2 minutes before the TV channels reported.

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