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China Consumer Inflation Slows, Factory Prices Show Sign of Peak

China Consumer Inflation Slows, Factory Prices Show Sign of Peak
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China Consumer Inflation Slows, Factory Prices Show Sign of Peak China’s consumer prices rose slower than expected and factory inflation showed signs of peaking, after a pullback in commodity costs with an easing of tensions over Iran last month. The consumer-price index decelerated to 1% in June from a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.2% in the previous month, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of...

China Consumer Inflation Slows, Factory Prices Show Sign of Peak China’s consumer prices rose slower than expected and factory inflation showed signs of peaking, after a pullback in commodity costs with an easing of tensions over Iran last month. The consumer-price index decelerated to 1% in June from a year earlier, compared with a gain of 1.2% in the previous month, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists was 1.1%.
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