Dow Jones Newswires: China retail sales and industrial production cooled in May

This post was originally published on this site

Growth in China’s consumption and industrial production cooled in May, showing that the country’s economic recovery is losing momentum, official data showed Thursday.

Retail sales, a proxy for China’s consumption, rose 12.7% from a year earlier in May, down from an 18.4% increase in April, said the National Bureau of Statistics. The result missed the 13.1% growth expected by economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal.

On…