BEIJING: Chinese producer prices rose in the year through May at their fastest pace since before the 1997 Asian financial crisis, raising prospects of the first interest rate rise in nearly a decade.
Prices of goods at the factory gate were 5.7% higher in May than a year earlier as energy and raw material costs climbed, the State Statistical Bureau said yesterday.
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