China reports consumer deflation for first time since 2009

  • China’s official consumer price index (CPI) fell to minus 0.5 per cent in November from a year earlier – down from 0.5 per cent growth in October
  • The decline was driven by improvements in pork supply, but the mild deflation has not painted a ‘picture of consumer spending exuberance’, one analyst says

You go on Taobao, everything is cheap, cheaper than a few years ago. So I buy, buy and buy.

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