
China’s October producer price index rose 5.7% year over year, exceeding forecasts and reaching its highest rate since June 2022, while consumer inflation slowed to 0.7%. Higher mining and raw-material prices supported producer inflation, while falling food prices weighed on consumer inflation.
The divergence points to rising industrial input costs alongside subdued consumer demand, but the figures do not identify a direct feed-commodity supply shock or price move.
After 24 past report events, Chinese Yuan (CNY per USD) moved a median -0.0% over 5 sessions (46% higher; middle half -0.3% to +0.4%), and -0.9% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.