China Q4 GDP growth slows to 6.4%, as expected

"I don't think this is a turning point for slower growth. I think the recovery is probably delayed but I think the recovery is still coming," Tao Wang, a UBS economist in Hong Kong said

BEIJING: China's economy grew 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier, official data showed on Monday, in line with expectations and slower than the previous quarter's 6.5 percent growth.

The September-December growth rate was the weakest expansion since the financial crisis, data published by the National Bureau of Statistics showed, adding to fears of a sharper slowdown in global growth.