BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s shopper costs rose extra slowly in October, whereas producer value deflation deepened, whilst Beijing doubled down on stimulus insurance policies to prop up its sputtering economic system.
China unveiled a ten trillion yuan ($1.4 trillion) bundle on Friday to ease native authorities “hidden debt” burdens, relatively than immediately injecting cash into the economic system.
The buyer value index edged up 0.3% final month from a 12 months earlier, slowing from September’s 0.4% rise and the bottom since June, knowledge from the Nationwide Bureau of Statistics confirmed on Saturday, lacking a 0.4% enhance estimate in a Reuters ballot of economists.
CPI dropped 0.3% month-on-month, versus an unchanged final result in September and beneath a forecast 0.1% decline.
The producer value index slid 2.9% on 12 months in October, deeper than the two.8% fall in September, and beneath the anticipated 2.5% decline.
($1 = 7.1785 renminbi)
