CH GDP q/y

China's economic growth is expected to strengthen on a sequential basis amid the latest stimulus package and with more incremental policies in the pipeline, translating into over 5 percent year-on-year growth in the fourth quarter, analysts and economists said on Sunday. They said a long-awaited policy shift is unfolding for China's economy and markets, as policymakers have pledged to strengthen countercyclical adjustment and step up fiscal policy support. This will include the largest debt resolution support in recent years, with a ...

Chinese crude oil imports lower than expected this year. Bob Iaccino has more.

Oil prices remained resilient this morning following a turbulent weekend. An attack on US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has seen the US Dollar start the week on the front foot but Oil prices have held firm. Data out of China this morning stoked fears around demand once more, something which market participants had hoped was in the rearview mirror. The overall fundamental picture remains largely positive but demand concerns may hamper any further gains in the short-term. China’s GDP data released this morning was disappointing as ...

China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Monday said the country’s second-quarter GDP rose by 4.7% year on year, missing expectations of a 5.1% growth, according to a Reuters poll. June retail sales also missed estimates, rising 2% compared with the 3.3% growth forecast. Industrial production, however, beat expectations up by 5.3% in June from a year ago, higher than Reuters estimate of 5% growth. Urban fixed asset investment for the first six months of the year rose by 3.9%, meeting expectations. Investment in infrastructure and ...

China's economy likely slowed in the second quarter as a protracted property downturn and job insecurity weighed on domestic demand, keeping alive expectations Beijing will need to unleash more stimulus. Data released on Monday is expected to show the world's second-largest economy grew 5.1% year-on-year in April-June, slowing from 5.3% in the previous three months and the weakest growth since the third quarter of 2023, according to a Reuters poll. The figures come as Beijing seeks to shore up economic confidence at a highly ...

The first quarter data confirmed that stimulus measures are boosting China’s GDP growth towards the 5% target in 2024. At the same time, sectoral differences are large as consumer confidence is weak and the downturn in the housing sector continues. China’s GDP increased by 5.3% y/y and 1.6% q/q in the first quarter of 2024. The quarterly numbers were somewhat higher than had been expected but many monthly indicators actually weakened in March. There continues to be large sectoral differences in the short-term outlook which is not a ...

China’s economic growth beat expectations in the first quarter, as factory output led the expansion bolstering expectations the government can hit its ambitious annual target. Gross domestic product increased 5.3% in the January-to-March period from a year earlier, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed Tuesday. That’s higher than the median estimate of 4.8% in a Bloomberg survey of economists and just above a growth rate of 5.2% in the final quarter of 2023. Other Key Figures From the Data: Industrial production ...