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China Industrial Output Accelerates as Inflation Eases

China’s factory output and retail sales exceeded forecasts and inflation unexpectedly cooled to the slowest pace in 33 months, signaling the government is boosting growth without driving a rebound in prices.

Industrial production rose 9.6 percent in October from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said today in Beijing. That exceeded the 9.4 percent median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News. Retail sales growth of 14.5 percent picked up from September’s 14.2 percent. The consumer- price index increased 1.7 percent.”

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