Reuters/Huizhong Wu/1-19-2020
USAGOLD note: Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to assessing the net effect of this statement on (a) financial markets in the short run, and (b) the global economy in the longer run. At first reading, it looks like some judicious backtracking, but we might be reading more into it than what was intended. It will be interesting to see if the markets deem it worth a reaction when they open a few hours from now.
