China Manufacturing Dips For Now

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China’s purchasing manufactures index contracted in July for the first time since mid-2010 when the recession was hardly over. HSBC, which publishes in index, reported that a reading of 48.9 in July from 50.1 in June. The dip is small and the data may move back up in August. But, it could just as easily fall further.

The concerns continue to grow that demand for China’s exports has weakened in the last quarter as US economic growth has flat lined and the turmoil in Europe has grown. Matters in America could get worse. Lay-offs have begun to rise. The effects of the Obama stimulus are gone. The Federal Reserve has ended its QE2 program.

The government of the People’s Republic still forecasts that GDP growth in the country will be over 9%. The PMI data makes that a little less like.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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