{"id":848885,"date":"2026-09-15T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848885\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:50:27","slug":"chinas-economy-under-further-pressure-in-august-as-analysts-expect-rebound-next-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/848885\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economy under further pressure in August, as analysts expect rebound next quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s economy came under further pressure in August, as sluggish investment and consumption highlighted persistently weak domestic demand, although analysts expect a rebound in the fourth quarter as state intervention begins to take effect.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Retail sales, a major gauge of consumer spending, grew last month by 0.4 per cent year on year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The reading was lower than a 0.73 per cent rise forecast by economists surveyed by Chinese financial data provider Wind, and was down from the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/economic-indicators\/article\/3364266\/chinas-domestic-demand-stays-muted-july-retail-sales-miss-expectations?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">0.6 per cent increase in July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Overall fixed-asset investment \u2013 covering major areas such as infrastructure, manufacturing and property construction \u2013 fell by 7.2 per cent in the January-August period, year on year, largely in line with a Wind forecast of a 7.19 per cent decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s economy came under further pressure in August, as sluggish investment and consumption highlighted persistently weak domestic demand,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2254,28,144,22318,9338,101,113734,111720,162,7345,23950,358949,28607,11484,33409,358950],"class_list":["post-848885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-china","tag-consumption","tag-domestic-demand","tag-economy","tag-fixed-asset-investment","tag-industrial-output","tag-investment","tag-july","tag-national-bureau-of-statistics","tag-property-construction","tag-retail-sales","tag-tuesday","tag-wind","tag-year-on-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}