BEIJING—Prices in China rose less than expected in February as demand for food eased after the Lunar New Year holiday, the third piece of Chinese data that raised eyebrows this week. China’s consumer-price index inched up 0.8% in February from a year earlier, compared with a 2.5% gain in January, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday. The key inflation gauge undershot a 1.6% gain forecast by 14 economists in a Wall Street...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 09, 2017 04:52 UTC