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Korean retail sales decline for 6 consecutive quarters, China’s October indicator shows ‘economic contraction’ In the third quarter, retail sales decreased by -2.5%, facility investment -3.3%, and the cyclical value of the Donghaeng Composite Index, which shows the economic situation, fell 0.1 point in September, falling for four consecutive months, indicating a high interest rate and high infla..

The negative growth of semiconductors showed a 12.3% increase in inventories while semiconductor shipments plunged -26.1% in July. The 1.3% decline in mining industry production in July was led by a decrease in semiconductors (-3.4%) and machinery equipment (-3.4%), while the production of memory semiconductors such as flash memory DRAM and semiconductor assembly equipment wafer processing equip..

As the government and chaebols increase their dependence on US investment in the domestic economy, where investment is sharply declining, the economic slowdown continues, in which manufacturing shipments decrease and inventories rise. Manufacturing shipments in April fell 2.3% MoM, while the manufacturing inventory ratio rose 2.8%P MoM to 117.2%. In April, facility investment plummeted by 7.5% (..

On the 15th, the Ministry of Economy and Finance announced on the 15th that the consumer price inflation rate was 2.6% in the third quarter of this year (July-September) and that the recovery rate is slowing. The Ministry of Strategy and Finance diagnosed the inflation rate as possible in the 3% range in October, and the “expected 4%” growth rate this year is due to fiscal revenue. The number of..