- Prior month -0.4% MoM
- MoM for January -0.4% vs -0.5% last month
- January YoY -0.7% vs -0.4% in December
It was reported earlier that the US and China are in talks over innovative emerging market debt plans to prevent surge in defaults.
It was also reported that China is sending two giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo. That is the first time it granted new panda loans to the United States in two decades.
In 2023, the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, DC has returned its three pandas to China, concluding over five decades of hosting Chinese pandas. As the first US zoo to display pandas, the National Zoo’s closure of its panda program leaves Zoo Atlanta as the sole remaining US zoo with pandas.
HMMMM.Relations thawing?