{"id":272546,"date":"2025-11-09T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272546\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:02:08","slug":"china-october-inflation-data-cpi-0-2-y-y-expected-0-ppi-2-1-y-y-expected-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272546\/","title":{"rendered":"China October inflation data: CPI 0.2% y\/y (expected 0%), PPI -2.1% y\/y (expected -2.2%)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Inflation data from China for October 2025, Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI).<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">CPI +0.2% y\/y <\/p>\n<p>expected 0.0%, prior -0.3%<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">CPI +0.2% also for the m\/m<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">PPI -2.1% y\/y (producer prices have now fallen for a 37th straight month)<\/p>\n<p>expected -2.2%, prior -2.3%<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">This is slightly better than expected. The CPI is still flirting with deflation but has come in a touch stronger than expected. The PPI is still locked into deflation but there has been a small improvement. Its still going to be a long path back out of deflation for producer prices though. <\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p data-v-4026719d=\"\">Some background to this if you need it. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"1375\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Deflation in China has persisted since the pandemic, worsened by <\/p>\n<p>a property slump, weak consumer confidence, industrial overcapacity that has pushed companies into price warsand, of course, tariff headwinds this year impacting demand also<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"1375\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Despite policy efforts to curb excess competition and stabilise prices, China\u2019s GDP deflator\u2014the broadest gauge of economy-wide prices\u2014has been negative for more than two years, the longest such run since records began in 1992.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1857\" data-v-4026719d=\"\">Beijing has lowered its official 2025 inflation target to around 2%, the lowest in over two decades. Inflation, however, remains near zero, reflecting deep structural imbalances. Analysts expect China remains likely to meet its 5% full-year target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation data from China for October 2025, Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI). CPI +0.2%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,47180,164],"class_list":["post-272546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china-inflation-cpi-ppi","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}