Five Things to Watch in China’s GDP Report

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Tear your eyes away from China’s swinging stock market for a few minutes this Wednesday. At 10:00 a.m. Beijing time comes the world’s second-biggest economy’s gross domestic product report for the three months through June.

The economy may have expanded 6.8 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. That compares to a 7 percent growth pace in the first quarter.