China Inflation Takes Off After Holiday Boost as Oil Shock Looms

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000China’s consumer-price growth accelerated to the quickest in over three years and factory deflation moderated again, after a rally in energy markets and as household spending boomed during a later-than-usual Lunar New Year holiday.The consumer-price index climbed faster than all forecasts in February and reached 1.3% from a year earlier, after a 0.2% rise in January, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was 0.9%.