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China credit slowing on GDP calculation tweaks

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The slowdown in credit growth is partly due to a change in the way Chinese authorities calculate GDP.
Starting in Q1, the stats bureau (NBS) has used net interest income, net bank charges, and other measures of bank profitability to calculate the value banks add to the economy (SCMP).

Previously, t...