China industrial production rose 5.0% yoy in October, below expectation of 5.2% yoy. Retail sales dropped -0.5% yoy, much worse than expectation of 1.0% yoy. That’s also the first decline since May. Fixed asset investment rose 5.8% ytd yoy, below expectation of 5.9%.
“We will focus on expanding effective demand, deepening structural reform on the supply side, continuing to stabilise employment and prices, stabilizing expectations, stimulating market vitality more, consolidating the economic recovery to a sound basis, and try to achieve better development results,” the NBS said in a statement.
