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BEIJING — When he bought an apartment near a good high school in northeast Beijing in 2020, Zhou Fujin expected that renting it out would cover most of his mortgage. But the apartment’s value and the ...

"We have to dispense with the question, 'Is there a deflation?' and the answer is, 'No.'" So says European Central Bank President Mario Draghi. The ECB claims all is well, but the economic condition ...

Consumer prices in China have plunged to their lowest level in more than a year, highlighting persistent deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a ...

China's economy continues to trend in the wrong direction. In the latest sign of the country's worsening deflation problem, fresh data showed consumer prices in China tumbled in January at the ...

“Goldman Sachs has suggested that investors look to Japan’s ‘lost decade’ as a guide to the future of the Chinese stockmarket.” – The Economist (Jan. 11, 2025 After two decades of rapid expansion, ...

Investors are closely watching China, whose stock market gyrations, deflation problem and property woes are casting a shadow over global growth outlook. According to the IMF, demand for new housing in ...

2024 is the year of the incredible shrinking China. The country's growth has been treated like an inevitability for decades. Everything was getting bigger — its cultural influence, geopolitical ...

Living in China is getting cheaper. Because rents in my neighborhood in central Beijing are dropping, my wife and I pressed our landlord to reduce ours by $140 a month in a new lease that we signed ...

BEIJING — When he bought an apartment near a good high school in northeast Beijing in 2020, Zhou Fujin expected that renting it out would cover most of his mortgage. But the apartment's value and the ...