{"id":27545,"date":"2018-12-31T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27545"},"modified":"2018-12-31T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:22:42","slug":"chinas-factory-sector-contracts-for-the-first-time-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27545","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s factory sector contracts for the first time since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN Business)<\/cite>China&#8217;s slowing economy is ending 2018 on a sour note. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The country&#8217;s huge factory sector contracted in December for the first time in two and a half years, according to government data published on Monday. It&#8217;s the latest sign of weaker momentum in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The official purchasing managers index slumped to 49.4 during the month, which was lower than what economists polled by Reuters had forecast. A reading below 50 indicates that manufacturing activity<strong> <\/strong>contracted compared to the previous month.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN Business)China&#8217;s slowing economy is ending 2018 on a sour note. The country&#8217;s huge factory sector contracted in December for the first time in two and a half years, according to government data published on Monday. It&#8217;s the latest sign of weaker momentum in the world&#8217;s second-biggest economy.The official purchasing managers index slumped&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}