World Business Report

Are Chinese businesses feeling the squeeze?


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New official data shows that prices in China are falling again. The producer price index, which measures the amounts charged by factories, has been negative for three straight years and last month it declined by 2.3 per cent year-on-year. Meanwhile, with consumer prices also down during a holiday month, is the world's second largest economy stuck in a hole, and how hard will it be to fix?

Elsewhere we hear about the economic turmoil and rising living costs over the past year in Indonesia that's caused violent protests.

And Ed Butler speaks to Professor Sir Cary Cooper on why Germany wants to put its pensioners back to work.

The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.

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