New pain for China’s property sector

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As sluggish demand continues to plague the Chinese economy, investor sentiment takes a renewed hit on more disappointing data out of China. Today’s Caixin PMI data shows that China's services activity in August expanded at the slowest pace in eight months, with stimulus effort ...

Gideon talks to economist Keyu Jin about China’s goal of becoming the world’s biggest economy despite a falling population, the impact of the deterioration in US-China relations, and the way in which the aspirations of its younger generation are shaping policy in Beijing. The ...

China’s economy has been growing faster than almost any other for a generation, so a slowdown is unfamiliar territory. Today on the show we look at three indicators — the CPI, exports and property sales — and try to understand why growth in China is finally slowing, and what i ...