More attempts to talk up the economy and calm investor worries

China
  • Imports and exports trade are overall stable in Q1
  • Says that Chinese companies front-loaded exports last year

This of course comes after China's February trade data was rather abysmal and caused concerns about the country's economic outlook this year. They also talked up trade data for the first week of March in efforts to help soothe market participants earlier this month, so this just adds to that rhetoric.