{"id":15772,"date":"2025-09-12T03:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15772\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T03:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:49:07","slug":"chinas-summer-of-economic-weakness-likely-stretched-into-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15772\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Summer of Economic Weakness Likely Stretched Into August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s economy likely endured another month of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-15\/china-s-economy-abruptly-weakens-in-ominous-sign-for-outlook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">weakness<\/a> in August, with a slowdown in industrial output and investment offsetting a slight improvement in retail sales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Official data due Monday will show factory production increased 5.6% in August from a year earlier, down from a 5.7% gain in the previous month, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey. Retail sales growth is expected to pick up slightly to 3.8% after the weakest gain all year, while fixed-asset investment probably had its slowest expansion in almost half a decade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economy likely endured another month of weakness in August, with a slowdown in industrial output and investment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[460,72,114,4990,113,7319,6784,14847,61,60,14849,123,4674,14848,8982],"class_list":{"0":"post-15772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-economics","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-exports","14":"tag-gdp","15":"tag-greater-china","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-july-sarl-caen","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-retail","21":"tag-societe-generale-sa","22":"tag-trade-surplus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772","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=15772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}