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China Stocks Post Biggest Weekly Gain in a Month After PMI Data

  • Official PMI matches estimates as Caixin data misses forecasts
  • PBOC has room for targeted moves to release liquidity: JK Life

China's June PMI Data Shows L-Shaped Recovery

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China’s stocks capped their biggest weekly gain in a month after official manufacturing data matched forecasts and a gauge of services activity perked up.

The Shanghai Composite Index posted a weekly advance of 2.7 percent as it added 0.1 percent on Friday. Materials companies rose while a measure of health-care companies fell. China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index for June stood at 50, the line dividing improvement from deterioration, and the non-manufacturing PMI gauge rose to 53.7 from 53.1 in May, data showed on Friday.