Each month Bloomberg do this mini-wrap of the early data for Chinese economic developments
In brief (more at the link if you'd like to check out the whole thing):
Standard Chartered Plc's Small and Medium Enterprise Confidence Index
- rose to 56 after 3 months of declines
- Monthly survey of more than 500 companies
- Pickups in sub-indexes indicate a broad-based improvement
China Satellite Manufacturing Index
- Manufacturing up to 50.5 (from 49.5 in June)
- The gauge uses commercial satellite imagery to monitor activity across thousands of industrial sites
Sales Managers survey from London-based World Economics
- Sentiment among sales managers rose to a 26-month high
- Sub-index for the non-manufacturing sector hit a 30-month high
S&P Global Platts China Steel Sentiment Index
- 55.3 in July, the first time this year it has breached 50
- Based on a survey of about 75 to 90 China-based market participants including traders and steel mills
A drop in the confidence of international financial professionals - survey of the China Economic Panel -- a joint project of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany, and Fudan University in Shanghai
- Expectations for the next 12 months slumped to minus 4.1 from 9.7 in June
- The projection is below the long-term average of 5.1
