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Published in TZ Latest News 9 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

46 Months Of Accelerating Deflation Mean Beijing Is Now Trapped

It may be Saturday, but there is no rest for the onslaught of negative data from China, which overnight reported the latest, December, consumer and producer price inflation numbers, with the former printing at 1.6% Y/Y, matching consensus estimates, and a tiny increase from the 1.5% in November: the rebound was largely due to one-time items. For all of 2015, CPI rose 1.4%, the slowest annual increase since 2009 and well below Beijing’s goal of keeping last year’s inflation below 3%. In 2014, CPI rose 2.0%.

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