{"id":131390,"date":"2025-09-12T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:00:06","slug":"chinas-summer-of-economic-weakness-likely-stretched-into-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131390\/","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":131391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13514,84,891,4229,1294,144,2184,35557,10980,467,2023,61863,59041,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-131390","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-july-sarl-caen","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-retail","19":"tag-societe-generale-sa","20":"tag-trade-surplus","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}