{"id":167178,"date":"2025-11-30T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167178\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:47:07","slug":"china-factory-activity-slumps-for-longest-stretch-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167178\/","title":{"rendered":"China Factory Activity Slumps for Longest Stretch on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s factory activity improved but remained in contraction in November, extending its streak of declines to a record as the country\u2019s economic slowdown deepens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/CPMINDX:\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">official manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index<\/a> was 49.2, remaining below the 50 mark that separates growth and contraction for an eighth month. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 49.4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factory activity improved but remained in contraction in November, extending its streak of declines to a record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,114,2127,11507,18478,113,7319,18914,61,40436,60,582,123,9115,541],"class_list":["post-167178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economic-growth","tag-economy","tag-exports","tag-global-trade","tag-ie","tag-industrial-production","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-markets","tag-real-estate","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167178","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=167178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}