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Using ETFs to Play China—New Article on Forbes.com

I recently sat down with Wallace Forbes to discuss investing in China and other emerging markets—the interview is now up on Forbes.com. The text of the article follows below:

Using ETFs To Play China

John's Twitters for 2010-02-22

Posted by John Rutledge on Monday, February 22, 2010 at 6:59 am  · Filed under Twitter Posts · Tagged with Rutledge, tweets, twitter

You don't Use Interest Rates to Control Cabbage Prices: China February CPI +2.7% will Not Trigger Policy Tightening.

China CPI – February 2010
(The charts below are courtesy of Andy Rothman at CLSA. Andy is by far the most knowledgeable person I know on Chinese inflation issues.)
The worry that rising inflation in China will provoke the government to tighten sharply, which would slow growth and push commodity prices lower is unfounded.
China’s February CPI was up +2.7% from a year earlier after showing deflation for most of 2009. As the chart below shows, however, it’s all food prices. 2.06% of the 2.7% headline number came from food.