{"id":244865,"date":"2025-11-05T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:17:09","slug":"china-services-gauge-expands-but-growth-slows-to-three-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244865\/","title":{"rendered":"China Services Gauge Expands But Growth Slows to Three-Month Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s services activity expanded in October even though growth was the weakest in three months, a private survey showed, as holiday spending and travel by households supported the industry during a deepening economic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-03\/china-factory-activity-growth-decelerates-private-survey-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">slowdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MPMICNSA:Ind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">The RatingDog China services purchasing managers\u2019 index<\/a> slipped to 52.6 from 52.9 in September, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmi.spglobal.com\/Public\/Home\/PressRelease\/7a3999f21ec0448ca77f17d351624328\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">statement<\/a> published Wednesday, extending a growth streak that started after Covid lockdowns in 2022. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 52.5, with any reading above 50 indicating an expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s services activity expanded in October even though growth was the weakest in three months, a private survey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,891,10979,2343,4229,1294,2195,96,1431,71565,467,1758,1219,387,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-construction","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-economics","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-employment","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-inflation","17":"tag-jinping-xi","18":"tag-markets","19":"tag-shopping","20":"tag-tourism","21":"tag-travel","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244865","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=244865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}