China's consumer-price inflation remained high in July, while activity data suggest that growth was sluggish at the start of the third quarter. On the face of it, this poses a dilemma for China's...

Pork prices fell in the second half of July. It is too soon to sound the all-clear. But given that consumer price inflation in everything except pork was stable over the first half of the year, this...

China may be the US government’s largest foreign creditor but it has no better option than to hope for the best and try to calm any market jitters in the event of a US downgrade.

Many of China’s smaller companies are struggling as government efforts to control inflation cause their borrowing costs to soar. The solution, as strange as it may sound, is for benchmark interest...