Chinese Consumer Prices Rose 3.4% in May; Other Gauges More Restrained
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Inflation reached a 27-month high while figures for growth suggested that the broader economy was not yet overheating.
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Consumer prices rose by a slightly bigger-than-expected 0.2 percent in June on higher food costs and they were up by the same amount after stripping out volatile food and energy prices, the Labor Department reported on Wednesday.
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The European Central Bank increases interest rates from 3.75% to 4% in an attempt to bring inflation under control.
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Surging oil prices could moderate China's economy this year as rising costs push inflation higher, hitting corporate profits and consumer pocket books, analysts and state press said.
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Consumer prices rose faster than most workers' wages last year, as surging energy prices pushed inflation to the highest level in four years, the Labor Department said yesterday.
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China raised its benchmark interest rates on Thursday for the sixth time this year, in the latest in a series of tightening steps to contain inflation and prevent the world's fourth-largest economy from overheating.
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BEIJING -- Chinese inflation rose to its highest level in more than two years in May, driven by soaring prices for pork and other food, according to government figures released Tuesday.
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Inflation in May outside of food and  energy posted its slowest annual gain in three years,  suggesting the Federal Reserve is making progress in fighting  inflation.
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Asian stocks rose, led by PetroChina Co., after crude oil climbed to a four-week high and comments by Vice Premier Huang Ju increased speculation that China won&#39;t adopt new measures to slow the economy.
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China raised interest rates on Thursday for the sixth time this year, the latest of a series of tightening steps to cap inflation and prevent the world's fourth-largest economy from overheating.
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China&#39;s central bank has raised interest rates for the first time in 14 years, in a bid to moderate the country&#39;s explosive economic growth.
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Chinaâs government reported industrial production growth unexpectedly accelerated in May, hours after Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, left, said further steps were needed to cool the countryâs economy. Output rose 18.1 percent in May from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said, after gaining 17.4 percent in April. Mr. Wen said Wednesday that monetary policy needed âmoderate tightening,â underscoring the failure of two interest rate increases this year to slow the economy. Record trade surpluses have pumped money into the financial system, stoking investment, inflation and a stock market boom. For the first five months, industrial production climbed 18.1 percent from the period last year, up from 16.6 percent growth for all of 2006.
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China's economy accelerated to 9.5 percent growth in the year through the fourth quarter, exceeding forecasts and raising the risk of another interest rate increase to avoid overheating.
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Growth in China&#39;s economy is expected to expand at a rapid rate in 2007, with inflation ticking higher to 3.2 percent, state media reported Friday, citing the central bank.
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China's economy will grow by 9.3 percent this year, the government forecast Thursday, amid signs that efforts to tame the economic boom may be failing to cap inflation.
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Chinaâs car sales rose 23 percent in May, as price cuts and new models attracted more people to showrooms. Customers bought 488,500 passenger cars, multipurpose vehicles and sport-utility vehicles in May, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said.
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A steady rise in food and energy costs pushed overall U.S. consumer prices up 0.7 percent in May, the sharpest gain in more than 1-1/2 years, but prices that strip out volatile food and energy barely edged up, the Labor Department said on Friday.