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China inflation is hurting, as lockdowns roil supplies

The producer price index rose 8% from a year earlier compared to 8.3% in March, official data showed Wednesday, above the median estimate of a 7.8% increase in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Consumer-price growth accelerated to 2.1% from 1.5% in the previous month, faster than a projected 1.8% gain.

May 11, 2022 / 09:04 IST
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A worker stands in front of a machine on a yarn production line at the Fujian Strait Textile Technology Co. factory in Putian, Fujian province, China, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. China may have got its control of Covid down to a handful of new cases per day, but the restrictions, quarantines and travel curbs to keep it that way have forced millions of factory workers to give up the idea of a traditional family gathering. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
A worker stands in front of a machine on a yarn production line at the Fujian Strait Textile Technology Co. factory in Putian, Fujian province, China, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. China may have got its control of Covid down to a handful of new cases per day, but the restrictions, quarantines and travel curbs to keep it that way have forced millions of factory workers to give up the idea of a traditional family gathering. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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first published: May 11, 2022 09:04 am

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