{"id":56554,"date":"2025-08-10T07:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56554\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T07:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:09:06","slug":"china-july-data-chinas-consumer-price-inflation-flat-y-y-but-higher-than-expected-m-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56554\/","title":{"rendered":"China July data &#8211; China\u2019s consumer price inflation flat y\/y, but higher than expected m\/m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"303\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">China\u2019s consumer prices were flat y\/y in July, as government efforts to rein in excessive competition offered some relief from deflationary pressures. Analysts caution that the path out of deflation will be long and may require stronger stimulus measures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"303\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">Consumer Price Index (YoY) (July) 0.0%, <\/p>\n<p>no change from a year earlier, beating forecasts for a small declinea second month without negative readingsexpected -0.1%, prior +0.1%<\/p>\n<p data-v-64ab016d=\"\">Consumer Price Index (MoM) (July) +0.4%<\/p>\n<p>expected +0.3%, prior -0.1%<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"303\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\"> Producer Price Index (YoY) (July) -3.6%<\/p>\n<p>factory-gate prices continued to fallproducer price index down for the 34th consecutive month of producer deflationexpected -3.3%, prior -3.6%<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"303\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\">Authorities have launched a campaign to curb price wars (<a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/chinese-president-xi-jinpings-war-on-deflation-speeds-up-anti-involution-policy-20250713\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-link\" data-v-64ab016d=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese policy shift to \u201cAnti-involution\u201d<\/a>) that have been squeezing company profits and wages, but analysts warn that deeper problems remain. Household expectations for future prices have weakened, and the GDP deflator \u2014 a broad gauge of economy-wide prices \u2014 has now fallen for nine straight quarters, the longest decline in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s consumer prices were flat y\/y in July, as government efforts to rein in excessive competition offered some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,30837,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-56554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china-inflation-cpi-ppi","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554","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=56554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}