HONG KONG: China’s economy descended deeper into a Covid-induced doldrums last month, raising questions about whether Beijing’s planned stimulus measures can prevent a prolonged downturn. Consumer spending and factory output tumbled in April, while growth in infrastructure investment—which Beijing has been counting on to prop up growth this year—slowed sharply, China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported on Monday. China’s headline jobless rate, meantime, surged to a two-year high of 6.1%, fu
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2022-05-16 00:00:00.0