Youre welcome to the pulse live in london. Our top story. Chinas secondquarter gdp beat estimates. Rising 7 from a year earlier. 7 , a, im always a skeptic. Coming in bang in line with what they wanted to achieve. What are these numbers . Andy you are right to be skeptic. It is a bit like last year. We had a slow start to the year. And a slow first couple months, but now it has picked up again. Exports being better. Consumers are back into the game. House prices recovered. It was enough to get gdp up to that 7 figure. Ill gveive your one anecdote. Cinema sales boomed, which gives an indication that the high street is actually spending a bit. Manus a take away from that is buy popcorn. Does it mean where in for a better second half . These numbers are better than the market hoped for. It depends on whether there is more rate cuts and more support given by this administration. Enda it does. One wild card we have is the stock market. We know the story about the huge gains in june. Then we
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