{"id":15354,"date":"2025-09-11T06:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15354\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T06:03:13","slug":"chinas-falling-consumer-prices-deepen-deflation-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15354\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s falling consumer prices deepen deflation fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data in China intensified fears of deepening deflation in the world\u2019s second-biggest economy. <\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices fell more than expected and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-10\/china-consumer-inflation-dips-below-zero-again-as-demand-weakens?srnd=homepage-americas\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">into negative territory for the first time in months<\/a>, while factory deflation persisted, adding to the challenges Chinese economic policymakers are facing. The country is grappling with mammoth debt, a real-estate market downturn, high levels of youth unemployment, and a broad economic slowdown. <\/p>\n<p>Deflation is particularly dangerous: When consumers expect declining prices, they hold off major purchases, creating a vicious economic cycle. Beijing has sought to fight this trend by urging against price wars and unveiling stimulus measures, but \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnamro.com\/research\/en\/our-research\/china-after-resilience-comes-the-slowdown-and-more-support\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">it remains questionable to what extent this crackdown will be effective<\/a>,\u201d ABN Amro economists wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A chart showing China\u2019s consumer price index.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"765\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"styles_imageEmbed__QsLwb styles_fullContentArea__zXct_\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fec01510f1a858c779a89f129b738e1af920d714-1599x1530.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data in China intensified fears of deepening deflation in the world\u2019s second-biggest economy. Consumer prices fell more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-15354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}