{"id":436055,"date":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436055\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:36:19","slug":"chinas-producer-consumer-inflation-up-in-april-as-iran-war-pressures-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/436055\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s producer, consumer inflation up in April as Iran war pressures persist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major benchmark of China\u2019s factory-gate prices continued to rise last month, as the energy shock linked to the US-Israel war on Iran weighs on producers in the world\u2019s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n

After returning to growth for the first time in more than three years the month before, the producer price index (PPI) recorded a higher-than-expected year-on-year increase of 2.8 per cent in April, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).<\/p>\n

This followed March\u2019s 0.5 per cent year-on-year increase<\/a>, which had also reflected imported inflationary pressures in energy-intensive sectors such as chemicals and fuels.<\/p>\n

Economists polled by the financial data provider Wind had forecast a 1.53 per cent uptick.<\/p>\n

The April reading points to a further pass-through of elevated global energy costs<\/a> into domestic prices, underscoring the risks that external volatility places on Beijing\u2019s energy security.<\/p>\n

The consumer price index (CPI) \u2013 a crucial gauge of inflation \u2013 rose 1.2 per cent year-on-year last month, higher than the 0.95 per cent forecast in the Wind poll and March\u2019s increase of 1 per cent.<\/p>\n

Dong Lijuan, a senior statistician at the bureau, said domestic energy prices climbed 5.7 per cent, which he attributed to volatility in global crude, which contributed an increase of 0.39 percentage points to the month-on-month CPI rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major benchmark of China\u2019s factory-gate prices continued to rise last month, as the energy shock linked to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5560,114,1657,6529,9572,53642,184,49665,53643,85,117780,46,16643,195252,29958,176446,7037,195253],"class_list":["post-436055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-china","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-core-inflation","tag-dong-lijuan","tag-economy","tag-energy-security","tag-factory-gate-prices","tag-il","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","tag-pinpoint-asset-management","tag-producer-price-index","tag-us-israel-war","tag-wind","tag-zhang-zhiwei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}