Economics
China Industrial Companies’ Profits Decline 2.2% in April
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Chinese industrial companies’ profits fell in April, a government report showed, as the nation’s slowing economy curbed demand.
Earnings declined 2.2 percent from a year earlier to 407.6 billion yuan ($64.2 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics said on its website yesterday. That compared with a 4.5 percent gain in March.