China, Fighting Inflation, Freezes Energy Prices
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Responding to growing public anxiety about inflation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced that China would freeze prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity in the near term.
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Inflation in China reached a 27-month high last month, but separate figures for growth in the money supply and loans suggested that the broader economy was not yet overheating.
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China will maintain a stable monetary and yuan policy as it tries to keep inflation in check, state media cited a central banker as saying, amid resurgent speculation Beijing may tinker with the rigidly held currency.
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The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the countryâs provinces in recent weeks.
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The outlook for China's once sizzling auto market has cooled, prompting both foreign and domestic automakers to scramble to undercut their competitors by slashing prices by up to 20 percent.
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If China wants to slow the rate of economic growth and oil demand slows because of that, &quot;then the oil prices at these levels are too high,&quot; he said.
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China raised its benchmark interest rates on Thursday for the sixth time this year, 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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Good news for officials who are trying to cool an overheated economy; austerity measures to remain. BEIJING  - China reported a marked slowdown in investment and money supply growth Monday, but stubbornly
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American consumers watching the dollars rack up as they pump gas at stations across the country usually blame the high prices on the war in Iraq. But China's galloping fuel consumption could destabilize global energy markets and security even more profoundly, energy specialists say.
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Surging food prices boosted China's annual consumer price inflation in May to a 27-month high, extending a rising trend and reinforcing expectations that interest rates will rise further.
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Oil prices simmered near &#36;55 a barrel on Friday on rising fears of a winter fuel supply crunch and robust but slowing economic growth in China, the world's number two user.
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China's central bank sought on Friday to soothe concerns over its first interest rate hike in nearly a decade, saying it will not have a big impact on the economy or the pegged yuan currency.
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Brutal winter weather across China on Monday stranded hundreds of thousands of people and choked energy flows, claiming a rising human and economic toll that pummeled local stock prices ahead of Chinese New Year.
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Oil prices steadied on Friday after an eight percent rout driven by a surprise interest rate hike in China that raised doubts about demand from the world&#39;s second largest energy user.
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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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Business News, BEIJING, China&#39;s annual inflation rate dropped sharply in November, providing further evidence that steps to cool the economy are working and reducing the chances in the near term of a fresh rise in interest rates.
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China&#39;s leaders should not relax their efforts to cool the country&#39;s fast-growing economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned.