China's gross domestic product expanded a seasonally adjusted 1.4 percent on quarter in the first quarter of 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. more...
SHANGHAI'S economy grew steadily in October as industrial output, consumer prices and foreign trade all rose. The city’s foreign trade in October jumped 14.3 percent from a year earlier to 266.08 billion yuan (US$ 40.22 billion), reversing a 5.7 percent drop in the same month last year, according to Shanghai Statistics Bureau. Imports surged 18 percent to 154.65 billion yuan while exports rose 9.6 percent to 111.43 billion yuan compared ...
Whether China shares are in a bubble depends on which data bit catches the fancy, but the market has outstripped its fundamentals and is 23 percent overbought, Credit Suisse said. "Margins, profitability and value creation continue declining as productivity growth lags real wage growth and product selling prices are eroded," Credit Suisse said in a note Friday. "Moreover, equity market price momentum has decoupled away from ...