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Factory-gate prices are key barometer for China, but is the latest rebound a true recovery?

· By Sylvia Ma
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While the eyes of the world are fixed both on this week’s US Federal Reserve’s policy meeting and the trajectory of American inflation, observers of the Chinese economy are closely tracking a different metric: the producer price index (PPI). For the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, factory-gate prices have long ser…

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