China April economic data at multi-year lows

Multiple Chinese economic indicators missed expectations on Wednesday, with consumption and investment growth figures falling to multi-year lows, underlining sluggish momentum in the world's second-largest economy. Growth in retail sales, a key indicator of consumer spending, fell to 10.0 percent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, the weakest for nine years. Fixed asset investment, a measure of government spending on infrastructure, expanded 12.0 percent in the first fo