China factory activity shrinks for 7th month, PMI shows
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China’s factory activity slumped for the longest streak in more than nine years, prompting fresh calls for greater policy support even as the country reached a trade truce with the US.The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index fell more than expected to 49 in October,
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China's factory activity likely shrank for a seventh month in October, underscoring the need for further stimulus to bolster domestic demand, as producers' efforts to offload goods abroad merely exported the price wars weighing on them at home.
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