The experts have also referred to China's tariff war with the US, growing bickering with Australia on trade-related issues and the fast deteriorating situation in Hong Kong
Retail sales fell 2.8 per cent on-year, more than a predicted 2.0 per cent decline
Higher spending, particularly on infrastructure, is expected to give activity a solid boost in the second half of the year and into 2021
The world gross domestic product is expected to contract by 3%, international trade may decline by up to 32%, and 49 million people could slip into extreme poverty
In an interview with Fox Business News, Trump said taxation was an incentive for companies to return manufacturing bases to the US.
The conflict enjoying out throughout the Chinese language web over the previous week quantities to a debate about the way forward for the world's different superpower
Shipments out of China are likely to have fallen 15.7 per cent in April from a year earlier, according to a median estimate from the survey of 28 economists
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The DC/EP system remains in a period of research and development, and that the pilots do not mean the PBOC has officially issued digital yuan
Citing data discrepancies, the Wuhan municipal headquarters on Friday revised the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths
The world's second-largest economy shrank 6.8% from a year ago in the three months ending in March after factories, shops and travel were closed to contain the infection, official data showed.
The country will still be the fastest growing large economy this financial year, but it will lose that tag next year to China, says the agency.
The US, Italy and Spain together share almost half the total Covid-19 cases across the globe
A Nikkei survey of 29 economists predicts that China's economy may contract by 3.7 per cent in Jan-March quarter.
The report did not give a detailed explanation as to why and how India and China will be the exceptions as the world faces a recession and loss in global income that will impact developing countries
China, where the coronavirus outbreak originated late last year in the central city of Wuhan, is widely expected to see its economy contract in the first quarter.
Retail sales fell 20.5% from a year earlier after shopping malls and other businesses were closed in late January
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The US already bans imports made with forced labour, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers said virtually anything coming from Xinjiang