EFTA Document EFTA01458559

2 October 2015 Global Economic Perspectives: A hard landing in China? The NBS survey in O2 had an average composite index of 52.0, which was consistent with a forecast GDP growth rate of 6.7% (the point on the regression line in Figure 9). In O3, this survey had an average composite index of 52.1, essentially unchanged as depicted in Figure 6. Somewhere between 6.7% and 7.0% for Q3 GDP growth seems a reasonable expectation. The Markit survey in Q2 had an average composite index of 51.4, w