Hong Kong CNN —Consumer prices in China fell more than expected last month, sliding the country back into deflation and renewing concerns about the strength of the world’s second largest economy.
As China’s most consumed meat, pork has an outsized weighting in the consumer price index.
He said deflation was a “pernicious” situation characterized by a decline in consumer prices as well as the prices of assets and wages, leading to a sharp slowdown in economic activity.
But consumer prices recovered in August.
This drop “reflects uncertainty around the solidity of China’s recovery,” HSBC Greater China economist Erin Xin noted in a report.
Persons:
Goldman Sachs, Robert Carnell, ”, Erin Xin
Organizations:
Hong Kong CNN —, National Bureau of Statistics, Economics, Asia Pacific, ING, ” HSBC
Locations:
China, Hong Kong