While U.S. companies battle inflation, those in China are up against something very different: deflation. The high-end Beijing hotel Beiyuan Grand has been setting up stalls in the evenings to serve ...

Mr. Davis is an economics reporter and an author of “Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War.” Competition in China is often far more cutthroat than in the ...

The consumer price index dipped 0.4% last month from a year earlier, worse than economists' forecast for a 0.2% contraction. Core CPI, stripping out the volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.9% from ...

China's August CPI down 0.4% y/y vs 0.0% in July Food deflation deepens, core inflation climbs August PPI falls 2.9% y/y vs down 3.6% in July Policymakers step up efforts to curb price competition ...

Retailers and consumers are confronting renewed inflationary pressure, after the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and NIQ reported shop price inflation of 1.4 % year on year in September — up from 0.9 ...

China’s factory prices fell at a slower pace in August, an encouraging development for an economy mired in deflation. Producer prices slid 2.9%, extending a years-long streak of negative readings, but ...

China’s factory deflation eased for the first time in six months even as consumer prices slipped below zero again, leaving open the question of whether the government will make a lasting difference ...