China Set to Deliver Another Lackluster Economic Report Card
Workers on the assembly line at the BYD Co. factory in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/BloombergKey economic data for November are set to show China’s domestic demand remained subdued — or even weakened further — offsetting the country’s solid performance in exports.
Numbers to be released by the National Bureau of Statistics Monday are expected to show retail sales rose 2.9% in November from a year before, the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg shows. That would match the weakest gain since August last year.