{"id":439988,"date":"2026-10-14T03:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-wednesday-october-14-2026-china-inflation-data-439988\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T20:22:38","slug":"economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-wednesday-october-14-2026-china-inflation-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-wednesday-october-14-2026-china-inflation-data-439988\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic and event calendar in Asia Wednesday, October 14, 2026 &#8211; China inflation data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">China releases consumer and producer price data for September at 0130 GMT on Wednesday, which is 9:30 pm US Eastern time on Tuesday. Factory-gate inflation is the reading most likely to move markets, as higher global energy costs continue to feed through the economy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">August sets the benchmark. Consumer prices rose 0.8% y\/y, up from 0.5% and in line with forecasts, while the 0.4% monthly gain beat expectations. Producer prices climbed 3.8% y\/y from 3.5%, with the statistics bureau pointing to rising energy prices.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There are three things to watch. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first is producer prices. The August increase reflected imported inflation, with higher crude oil and non-ferrous metal prices lifting petrochemical and smelting prices at home. Another firm print would confirm that the oil shock is still working its way through Chinese input costs.<\/li>\n<li>The second is pass-through to consumers. Headline CPI remains well short of Beijing\u2019s informal target of around 3%. Analysts warn that a weak property sector and soft consumption make it hard for downstream manufacturers to pass on higher costs, and that factory prices could slip back towards deflation once supply-side support fades. A widening gap between strong PPI and modest CPI would point to a squeeze on margins, not demand-led inflation.<\/li>\n<li>The third is core CPI, which excludes food and energy. It gives the clearest read on whether domestic demand is firming or whether energy is doing all the work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trade figures for September are also on the calendar. In August, exports rose 18.6% y\/y and imports 21.7% in yuan terms, with import growth outpacing exports for a sixth straight month. The dollar-denominated surplus was around $119 billion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For markets, a hot PPI would add to signs that China is passing higher goods prices on to the rest of the world after years of exporting disinflation. A soft CPI would keep the focus on weak household demand and support the case for further policy easing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China releases consumer and producer price data for September at 0130 GMT on Wednesday, which is 9:30 pm US Eastern time on Tuesday. Factory-gate inflation is the reading most likely to move&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-439988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439988","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=439988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}