{"id":430579,"date":"2026-05-18T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/china-april-retail-sales-0-2-y-y-exp-2-industrial-prduction-4-1-y-y-exp-5-9\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:40:05","slug":"china-april-retail-sales-0-2-y-y-exp-2-industrial-prduction-4-1-y-y-exp-5-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/china-april-retail-sales-0-2-y-y-exp-2-industrial-prduction-4-1-y-y-exp-5-9\/","title":{"rendered":"China April Retail Sales +0.2% y\/y (exp 2%) &amp; Industrial Prduction +4.1% y\/y (exp 5.9%)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>China April 2026 economic activity data. <\/p>\n<p>Retail Sales 0.2% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 2.0%, prior 1.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Industrial Production  4.1% y\/y<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 5.9^ prior  5.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fixed Asset Investment -1.6% y\/y ytd<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 1.7%, prior Prev. 1.7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unemployment Rate 5.2%<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prior 5.4%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately, details etc. <\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China April 2026 economic activity data. Retail Sales 0.2% y\/y expected 2.0%, prior 1.7% Industrial Production 4.1% y\/y expected 5.9^ prior 5.7% Fixed Asset Investment -1.6% y\/y ytd expected 1.7%, prior Prev. 1.7% Unemployment Rate 5.2% prior 5.4% I&#8217;ll have more to come on this separately, details etc. This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}