China\u2019s factory activity slumped for the longest streak in more than nine years, prompting fresh calls for greater policy support even as the country reached a trade truce with the US.<\/p>\n
The official manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index<\/a> fell more than expected to 49 in October, suggesting activity dropped the most in six months just before a leaders\u2019 meeting stabilized ties<\/a> this week. New orders<\/a> shrank the most since 2023 as demand took a hit from trade barriers and weak sentiment at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factory activity slumped for the longest streak in more than nine years, prompting fresh calls for greater…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,114,2127,11507,4990,113,246,14847,61,8868,15706,60,47466,123,3667,2737],"class_list":["post-113582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-greater-china","tag-ie","tag-imports","tag-industries","tag-ireland","tag-jinping-xi","tag-markets","tag-policy","tag-trade-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}