Bloomberg, Feb 8 2013:

China’s trade expanded more than estimated and a broad measure of credit rose to a record in a January that had five more working days than last year, helping sustain a rebound in the world’s second-biggest economy.

Exports gained 25 percent from a year earlier and imports rose 28.8 percent, government data showed today. Aggregate financing was 2.54 trillion yuan ($407 billion), including new local-currency loans of 1.07 trillion yuan that exceeded forecasts, while inflation was 2 percent.

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