Economics
Five Things to Watch in China’s GDP Report
- Labor market update will include job seeker-to-vacancy ratio
- Property investment data to show how much new curbs are biting
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China has defied the skeptics once more, weathering stock market wobbles and a weakening currency and shaking off a deflationary scare to post 2016 growth that’s almost certain to land smack in the middle of the government’s target range.
Fourth quarter and full-year gross domestic product data will be released Friday at 10 a.m. in Beijing, which will be 9 p.m. Thursday on Wall Street. The expansion remained 6.7 percent for a fourth-straight quarter, according to a Bloomberg survey of economists as of Tuesday. That annual pace would be the slowest since 1990, but still among the fastest in the world.