THE OUTLOOK FOR China's economic growth, which is experiencing its worst performance in decades, is the trigger of greatest uncertainty in the global energy markets, according to 32 per cent of respondents in a Gulf Intelligence Survey conducted with 200 industry professionals. Even at the Chinese government's targeted growth rate of seven per cent for this year, China's economy is heading for its slowest annual expansion in a quarter of a century. Producer prices slumped 5.4 per cent in July, credit to the real economy plunged and consumer inflation remains at about half the target of three per cent this year.
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