China’s CPI falls 1.1% in first nine months, PPI down 6.5%

China’s consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, dipped 1.1 percent year on year in the first nine months of this year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.
The September CPI was up 0.4 percent over the previous month.
However, the NBS did not provide the reading of September CPI on an annual [...]

China’s August CPI falls 1.2%, PPI falls 7.9%

China’s consumer price index (CPI), a major gauge of inflation, dipped 1.2 percent in August from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
The rate of decline was 0.6 percentage points lower than that in July. In August 2008, the CPI rose 4.9 percent over the same month in 2007.
This marked the [...]

CPI and PPI likely to fall again in July

China’s consumer and producer prices may extend their decline in July, but analysts warned of growing pressure for inflation to rise, said analysts.
The Consumer Price Index, the main gauge of inflation, may fall 1.7 percent in July from a year ago, similar to the drop in June which was the biggest decrease since 1999, Li [...]

Foundation of China’s industrial recovery unsound: official

The foundation of a recovery in China’s industrial sector is still not solid and faces many uncertainties, Zhu Hongren, spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said Wednesday.
“The positive changes in the country’s economic development do not mean the end of difficult times,” Zhu said at a press conference. “It is still [...]

China’s June CPI falls 1.7%, PPI down 7.8%

China’s consumer price index (CPI),a main gauge of inflation, dipped 1.7 percent in June from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here Thursday.
This marks the fifth consecutive month of decline since the index dropped 1.6 percent in February, the first fall since October 2002.
The index marked a month-on-month decrease of 0.5 [...]

Bout of optimism

Several banks, fund managers and economists have raised their growth forecasts for China after recent signs that the government’s hefty stimulus package is beginning to pay off in housing, consumer spending and factory production.

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