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            <title><![CDATA[Chinese Manufacturing Growth Overtaken by Finance Amid IPO Boom]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/chinese-manufacturing-growth-overtaken-by-finance-amid-ipo-boom</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:23:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goldman Upgrades Forecast for 2026 China Current-Account Surplus]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:01:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chinese Consumers Are More Thrifty Than Before Trump’s Trade War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:49:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China’s Industrial Profits Reverse Slump After Deflation Eases]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Vows to Significantly Boost Household Consumption Rate]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:48:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Says Trade Talks With US Set for Friday in Malaysia]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 06:52:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behind China ‘Credit Paradox,’ BNP Finds Flickers of Improvement]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:40:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Key Chinese Diplomat Reappears After Reportedly Being Questioned]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 05:09:47 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bessent Is Upbeat on China Trade Talks Thanks to 2020 Framework]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 07:35:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Services Gauge Unexpectedly Slows Despite Holiday Spending]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:52:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump 10% Tariffs on China Set to Take Effect as Deadline Passes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:01:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Prepares Trade Deal for Trump to Avoid Tariffs, WSJ Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 04:58:50 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Can Xi Fix China’s Economy as Trump Tariff Threat Looms?]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/china-economy-can-xi-s-stimulus-measures-counter-trump-tariffs-deflation</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:59:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[China Factory Activity Extends Slide as Headwinds Mount]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 01:56:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley, Barclays in Doubt Over Turkish Rates Staying Put]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-04/morgan-stanley-barclays-in-doubt-over-turkish-rates-staying-put</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Abelsky]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:13:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel’s Economy Rebounds Sharply From Slump Caused by Hamas War]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Galit Altstein]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Whac-A-Mole Economy Is Working as Putin Sails to Victory]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia&apos;s President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country&apos;s main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramil SITDIKOV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RAMIL SITDIKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Photographer: RAMIL SITDIKOV/AFP</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel’s Economy Contracts Nearly 20% After Outbreak of War]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:13:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A shopper passes an Israeli national flag at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. The chorus of voices that’s seizing on the link between the war and the populist attempt to weaken the judiciary reflects a growing and intense set of constraints on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — military, diplomatic, budgetary and judicial — as he begins his second year presiding over the most right-wing and religious coalition in Israel’s history.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Egypt Needs Cash and Gaza War Gives World New Reasons to Help Out]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Israel-Hamas conflict raging next door is a reminder of why the Arab nation is too big to fail.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-07/egypt-gets-more-leverage-amid-economic-crisis-devaluation-egp-usd-worries</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mirette Magdy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel Central Bank to Sell Up to $30 Billion to Shore Up Market]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Galit Altstein]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:55:58 GMT</pubDate>
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