If a Single transaction could sum up the knowns and unknowns surrounding China's red-hot economy, it would be the public offering of ICBC, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The largest of China's large banks and the last of the relatively healthy ones to list on an exchange, it is scheduled to price its shares on October 20th and to begin trading a week later. These dates, normally dry minutiae in a banker's diary, are as eagerly awaited as national holidays in some parts of China.
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