{"id":143309,"date":"2025-12-31T04:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143309"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:26:10","slug":"chinas-factory-activity-breaks-8-month-contraction-but-headwinds-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143309","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s factory activity breaks 8-month contraction, but headwinds persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s factory activity returned to expansionary territory in December \u2013 beating market expectations to end an eight-month contraction \u2013 but analysts said it might be premature to view the rebound as a sign of sustained stabilisation.<br \/>\nThe manufacturing purchasing managers\u2019 index (PMI) stood at 50.1 in December, up from 49.2 the previous month, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics.<br \/>\nThe reading exceeded a projection of 49.6 from economists polled by the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3338015\/chinas-factory-activity-breaks-8-month-contraction-headwinds-persist?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s factory activity returned to expansionary territory in December \u2013 beating market expectations to end an eight-month contraction \u2013 but analysts said it might&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}