Chinese deflation persists

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China NBS released May inflation figures yesterday and deflation persists. The CPI:

In May 2024 , the national consumer price index rose by 0.3% year- on -year . Among them, the urban price rose by 0.3% and the rural price rose by 0.4% ; food prices fell by 2.0% , non-food prices rose by 0.8% ; consumer goods prices remained unchanged, and service prices rose by 0.8 % . ­­ — On average in May , the national consumer price index rose by 0.1% compared with the same period last year .

It is still quite broad-based

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.