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©2015 Morningstar, Inc. All rights reserved.
Outlook for China & Commodities
Daniel Rohr, CFADirector, Basic [email protected]
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Key takeaways
3 Long-term outlook We expect GDP growth of no better than 5% over the next 5 to
10 years.
12 Short-term outlook GDP is already growing at roughly 5%.
16 Beijing’s big choices: Stimulus? Reforms?
Stimulus would make matters worse. Much-needed reforms will be painful and risky.
23 Equity market rescueThe cure is worse than the cold.
29 Currency devaluationBeijing has the motives and means to prevent a sharp
devaluation.
39 Global implications of a weaker ChinaHow the infection spreads
42 Commodities outlookChina ended the last dark age for commodities. It might begin
the next one.
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Balanced growth of 80s and 90s gave way to investment-led growth in the 00s…
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
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…resulting in growing imbalances.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
51%46% 43%
37% 38%
35%38% 39%
43% 46%
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China’s investment share of GDP is nearly twice the average for its income level.
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Source: World Bank, Morningstar
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Excess capacity Diminishing Returns Bad Debt Rebalancing
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China’s investment boom outstrips all precedents.
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Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, World Bank, Morningstar
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A “typical” post-boom decade would see China average 4.7% GDP growth…
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8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
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Boom Post boom
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2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
GDP Consumption Investment
Kore
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Boom Post boom
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2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
GDP Consumption Investment
Taiw
an
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Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, World Bank, Morningstar
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…but bigger booms tend to end in bigger busts.
J apanKorea
Malaysia
Taiwan
Thailand
China (implied)
China (our outlook)
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Avg investment share of GDP in boom
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, World Bank, Morningstar
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Attaining 5% GDP growth in the years to come will require significant reforms.
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Consumption Investment Government Net exports
Note: Outlook assumes 1.5% investment growth, 7% household consumption growth, 7.5% government consumption growth, and 2% net export growth.Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
This is our outlook for average growth to 2022, not a year-by-year forecast.
Our outlook is predicated on significant reforms to bolster consumption and improve investment quality.
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We estimate 1H2015 GDP growth at 4.5%.
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Official Our estimate
Consumption (household & govt) Investment Net exports
Note: We estimate 1% investment growth (official: 5.2%) and 7.3% consumption growth (official: 8.2%). Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
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Cement & steel volumes cast doubt on official investment growth rate.
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-6.0%
-4.0%
-2.0%
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
14.0%
2000-2014 CAGR 1H2015
Steel production Cement production Investment (GCF)
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
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Consumption has also slowed more than government figures suggest.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
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-6.0%
-4.0%
-2.0%
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Retail sales(nominal)
Retail sales(real)
VAT Automobiles Refrigerators AirConditioners
WashingMachines
InstantNoodles
Beer Soft drinks Cigarettes
Official retail sales growth 1H2015
Production growth 1H2015
Value-added tax1H2015
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Beijing’s big choices: Stimulus? Reforms?Stimulus would make matters worse. Much-needed reforms will be painful and risky.
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Many argue China has “room” to stimulate, citing low inflation.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
90.0
92.0
94.0
96.0
98.0
100.0
102.0
104.0
106.0
108.0
110.0CPI CPI ex. Food and Energy PPI
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More cuts to reserve requirement ratio (RRR) and benchmark rates are likely…
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7.0Benchmark lending rate (1 yr) Benchmark deposit rate (1 yr)
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24RRR RRR (large banks) RRR (small banks)
Source: People's Bank of China, CEIC, Morningstar
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…but the PBoC can’t “push on a string”
Source: People's Bank of China, CEIC, Morningstar
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Falling prices reflect a surfeit of supply, not a shortage of demand
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Source: China Electricity Council, China Iron and Steel Association, CEIC, Morningstar
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Stimulus is a shot of whiskey to cure a hangover.
Overinvestment
Excess supply
&Diminishing returns
Prices fall &
Economy slows
Bad debt accumulat
es
Stimulus
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Reforms will be necessary, but painful. Example: Credit
Status quo
► SOEs and local governments receive preferential credit access.
Costs of the status quo
► SOEs and local governments are largely responsible for China’s overinvestment and inefficient capital allocation.
► As long as they carry Beijing’s implicit backing, they will continue to receive preferential credit access.
► Excess capacity and bad debt will continue to build.
Benefits of reform
► Allocating credit according to market principles would eliminate the wealth transfer that hinders household consumption and starves private enterprise of capital.
Risks of reform
► Removing implicit backing would require a major SOE or local government default.
► Credit would be re-priced on a massive scale.
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Stock market rout didn't pose a major threat to consumer spending.
Source: People's Bank of China, National Bureau of Statistics, CEIC, Morningstar
63%7%
8%
1%
12%
9%
Chinese household financial assets, December 2013
Bank deposits
Cash
Stocks
Bonds
Insurance
Other
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les gr
owth
Real Nominal
Nominal retail sales decelerated throughout bull market of June 2014 to June 2015.
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Nor did it hamper corporate access to capital.
Source: People's Bank of China, CEIC, Morningstar
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e 20
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Panicked government intervention failed to prop up shares
Source: Shanghai Stock Exchange, CEIC, Morningstar
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite
June 12 Peak5,166
July 8 Intervention
3,507
Sept 303,053
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China’s equity markets are cheap at a glance, but less so upon further examination
Source: Shanghai Stock Exchange, CEIC, Morningstar
0.0x
5.0x
10.0x
15.0x
20.0x
25.0x
30.0xShanghai SE P/E
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10.0x
20.0x
30.0x
40.0x
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60.0x
70.0x
80.0x
90.0x
100.0xShanghai SE P/E by sector, Aug 2015
Weighted avg15.8x
Financials
7.9x
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Consequences of Beijing’s failed intervention
1. Intervention casts doubt on key reforms.
► Questionable commitment to President Xi’s pledge to cede a "decisive role" to the market
► Real reform of China's credit and currency markets, which are far larger and more important to the real economy than the stock market, looks increasingly doubtful.
2. Failure to implement key reforms heightens the risk of a debt crisis and diminishes the economy's long-term growth trajectory
► Reforms will be critical if China is to address mounting structural problems and transition to a more sustainable consumption-oriented growth model.
3. Failure to halt the rout risks denting party’s credibility as an economic steward.
► Confidence in the party's ability to manage the economy is partly self-fulfilling.
► So, too, would be a loss of confidence.
► Faltering faith in the government's ability to "deliver" economic growth would have serious real-world implications, including tighter credit, reduced investment, and greater market volatility.
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RMB had strengthened dramatically in real effective terms since 2010
Source: Bank for International Settlements, CEIC, Morningstar
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PPP-based analysis suggests RMB could be 30% overvalued.
Source: World Bank, Morningstar
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All other countries China Expon. (All other countries)
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Following initial devaluation, PBoC reestablished a de facto peg at 6.40.
Source: China Foreign Exchange Trading Center, CEIC, Morningstar
-1.0%
-0.5%
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1.5%
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3.0%
7/1/2014 8/1/2014 9/1/2014 10/1/2014 11/1/2014 12/1/2014 1/1/2015 2/1/2015 3/1/2015 4/1/2015 5/1/2015 6/1/2015 7/1/2015 8/1/2015 9/1/2015
Onshore OTC discount to official fix (%) Offshore discount to fix (%)
PBoC cuts official fix to 6.23 from 6.12
PBoC says it will take cues from OTC market when setting fix
PBoC begins to intervene in onshore OTC market to prop up RMB
PBoC and state-owned banks begin to intervene in offshore market
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Beijing is unlikely to ignite a currency war in a bid to stimulate exports.
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Net export share of GDP (left) USDCNY (right)
Beijing refrained from devaluing in financial crisis despite net exports being nearly 8% of GDP in 2008.
Net exports are now less than 3% of Chinese GDP.
Source: China Foreign Exchange Trading Center, CEIC, Morningstar
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Beijing’s main motives suggest dramatic devaluation unlikely
1. RMB internationalization
► Beijing wants greater share of global trade settled in RMB and more important role for RMB assets in global portfolios.
► Inclusion in IMF's Special Drawing Rights basket would be a major milestone and would require the RMB's value to be determined by market forces.
► Freer-floating RMB is a necessary step toward long-term goal of RMB internationalization.
► Significant (30%+) devaluation would be a major setback.
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Beijing’s main motives suggest dramatic devaluation unlikely (cont’d)
2. Curtail capital outflows
► Capital has been flowing out of China since summer 2014.
► Capital outflows undermine the PBoC's RRR cuts, which pump money into the economy.
► De facto dollar peg exacerbates capital outflows because it short-circuits the pricing mechanism that normally rebalances capital flows.
► Beijing hopes modest devaluation will relieve pressure.
► A large devaluation would risk triggering significant outflows
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1Q13 2Q13 3Q13 4Q13 1Q14 2Q14 3Q14 4Q14 1Q15 2Q15USD
bill
ions
Net capital flows
Source: People’s Bank of China, CEIC, Morningstar
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De-pegging could exacerbate capital outflows in the short term.
► Much will depend on market expectations regarding the pace and magnitude of future devaluation.
► If the market expects a fairly stable RMB, the incentive for capital flight wanes.
► If the market expects the RMB to weaken significantly, capital outflows would surge as investors look to get ahead of the move.
► Beijing is clearly aware of this risk, which is why:
1. PBoC took pains to assert that “there is no basis for persistent depreciation of RMB”
2. PBoC threatened to “severely punish illegal FX transactions…[to] maintain a compliant and orderly capital flow.“
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Defending the peg: Beijing’s reserves are massive on an absolute basis…
Source: People's Bank of China, CEIC, Morningstar
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…but appear more modest relative to the IMF’s reserve adequacy guidelines.
Source: IMF, People's Bank of China, General Administration of Customs, CEIC, Morningstar
IMF’s adequacy guidelines assess reserves against:
1. Export income► Reflects loss due to a drop in external
demand or terms of trade shock. ► Target reserves: 10% of exports (fixed
exchange rate) or 5% (floating)
2. Broad money supply► Captures residents’ capital flight from
liquidation of domestic assets► Target reserves: 10% or 5% of M2
3. Short-term debt► Reflects debt rollover risks► Target reserves: 30% of ST debt
4. Other liabilities► Reflects other portfolio outflows (e.g.,
equity & LT debt)► Target reserves: 20% or 15% of other
liabilities
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Adequate reserves (low) Adequate reserves (high) Actual reserves
USD
bill
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Exports M2 ST debt Other liabilities Actual
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How the infection spreads
Source: Morningstar
Chinese economy
slows
Exports to China fall
Economy weakens
Currency depreciate
s
Capital flight
Economy weakens
Defaults on USD
debt
Economy weakens
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Top exporters to China
Note: Red text denotes countries where GDP impact of falling exports to China exceeds 0.5%.Source: General Administration of Customs, World Bank, CEIC, Morningstar
TTM July, billion USD as % GDP % change YTD
Korea 183 13.0% -7.3%
Japan 153 3.3% -11.2%
USA 152 0.9% -7.2%
Taiwan 149 30.5% -3.7%
Germany 97 2.5% -13.4%
Australia 83 5.7% -25.8%
Malaysia 54 16.7% -4.1%
Brazil 44 1.9% -23.6%
Switzerland 40 5.8% -4.1%
Saudi Arabia 39 5.2% -34.2%
Thailand 38 10.1% -3.6%
Russia 36 2.0% -20.9%
South Africa 35 10.0% -40.1%
Singapore 30 9.6% -6.8%
Canada 26 1.5% 5.6%
France 26 0.9% -9.2%
Vietnam 22 12.0% 22.1%
Angola 22 16.7% -47.7%
United Kingdom 22 0.7% -15.3%
Philippines 21 7.2% -4.1%
Indonesia 20 2.3% -27.4%
Chile 20 7.7% -10.5%
Iran 20 4.7% -42.5%
Exports to China
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From 1980 to 2000, global mined commodity demand grew less than 1% annually.
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GDP Steel
1980-1990 CAGRGDP: 3.2%Steel: 0.7%
1990-2000 CAGRGDP: 2.8%Steel: 0.9%
2000-2014 CAGRGDP: 2.5%Steel: 4.9%
Source: World Steel Association, World Bank, Morningstar
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Metal prices are back at 1980 levels in real terms.
Index weights for base metals and iron ore: 27% Al, 38% Cu, 19% Fe, 2% Pb, 8% Ni, 2% Sn, 4% ZnIndex weights for precious metals: 78% Au, 19% Ag, 3% PtSource: World Bank, Morningstar
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Base metals & iron ore Precious metals
1980-1990 CAGRBase: -1.6%
Precious: -7.9% 1990-2000 CAGRBase: -1.3%
Precious: -2.2%
2000-2012 CAGRBase: 7.9%
Precious: 12.9%
2012-2015 CAGRBase: -18.2%
Precious: -13.0%
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China ended a 20 year dark age for mined commodities.
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Source: Various, World Bank, Morningstar
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China now dominates global demand for most commodities.
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Coal(thermal)
Aluminum Steel* Lead Copper Zinc Nickel GCF (PPP) Platinum Gold Potash PalladiumGDP (PPP) Oil Diamonds Uranium
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Source: Various, World Bank, Morningstar
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Iron ore | China’s steel demand has faltered amid the real estate downturn.
-16.8%
0.2%
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-1.2% -1.8%
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Source: National Bureau of Statistics, China Iron and Steel Association, CEIC, Morningstar
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Coal |Plunging Chinese import demand has dragged down seaborne prices.
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60%
Total Coal-fired All others Domestic Imports
2008-13 CAGR 2014 7M2015
Chinese electricity production
Chinese coal volume
Source: China Electricity Council, China National Bureau of Statistics, China General Administration of Customs, CEIC, Morningstar
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Copper |Key copper end-markets have weakened in China.
Source: CEIC, NBS, Morningstar
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
Floor Space Under Construction Elec Transmission Auto production
2013 2014 2015 ytd
2.00
2.20
2.40
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2.80
3.00
3.20
3.40
3.60
3.80Cu price USD/lb
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Copper |Chinese demand surged over the past decade, while falling elsewhere
Source: ICSG, World Bank, Morningstar
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Copper |We expect Chinese demand growth to wane amid economic rebalancing
Source: ICSG, World Bank, Morningstar
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China 2000
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