Overview

• Industrial output rose 5.2% year over year in August, down from 5.7% in July and below Reuters-polled expectations.
• Retail sales increased 3.4% from a year earlier, easing from 3.7% in July and missing the roughly 3.9% forecast.
• Fixed-asset investment grew 0.5% in January–August from a year earlier, well under the 1.4% consensus and down from 1.6% in January–July.
• Property investment fell 12.9% in the first eight months of the year, underscoring the deepening contraction in real estate.
• China’s surveyed urban unemployment rate edged up to 5.3% in August from 5.2% in July.