TREE NEWS reports: China’s core consumer price index, which strips out food and energy prices, rose 1.0% year-on-year in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said. The reading matched the pace recorded in the previous month, indicating underlying inflation held steady.
China September Core CPI Up 1.0% Year-on-Year, Same Pace as August
AI take
The steadiness of core CPI matters because it isolates the demand-sensitive part of the inflation basket from food and energy swings, and a flat reading suggests that underlying price pressure is neither building nor fading. For markets, that stability removes some urgency from the inflation debate and keeps attention on whether demand-side momentum is genuinely firm or merely treading water. Whether this pace holds in the months ahead is the open question.
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