Profits at China’s industrial firms dropped by 1.1% year-on-year to CNY 2,720.43 billion in the first five months of 2025, reversing a 1.4% gain in the January–April period. In May alone, industrial ...

China’s factory-gate prices fell at the fastest pace in over seven-and-a-half years in June, while consumer inflation was at its slowest since 2021, adding to the case for policymakers to use ...

China’s inflation headache is getting worse. The cost of goods leaving China’s factories surged by another record rate last month, and there are increasing signs that consumers are starting to ...

China's producer price index (PPI) rose 4.4% in annual terms, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement, far above a 3.5% rise forecast in a Reuters poll and up sharply from a 1 ...

China's producer price index, which tracks the factory-gate prices of industrial products, fell 1.7% on year in August, compared with a 2.3% decline in July, according to official figures issued ...

In November, the PPI (producer price index) for manufactured goods in China fell 5.9% YoY as manufacturers resorted to price cutting due to weak demand.

The PPI has fallen every one of the past 12 months. Meanwhile, analysts expect the annual rate of consumer price inflation to slow to 1.6% from 2.1% in October, which would be the slowest rate of ...

China's monthly producer price index (PPI) is likely to rise 10% in June, adding pressure on downstream consumers, senior official of banking and insurance watchdog Yu Xuejun told a forum in ...

Another month, another big decline in China’s Producer Price Index (PPI)--down 5.9% in August, the 42nd consecutive month of declines. What’s behind these big declines in PPI? Two things. On ...

But producer price index inflation reflected some improvements in the country, at least on the manufacturing front. PPI inflation shrank 0.8% in June, in line with expectations and improving ...