BEIJING — China’s factory output growth slowed in October and it was still too early to call a turn in the crisis-hit property sector even though consumers perked up, keeping alive calls for Beijing to top-up its recent blitz of stimulus to revitalize the economy.
The burst of data is likely to maintain pressure on Chinese policymakers as they brace for the return to the White House of Donald Trump, who has vowed to hike tariffs on Chinese goods and named China hawks to his Cabinet in a troubling sign for the world’s second-biggest economy.
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