Earnings for China’s tech giants will shed light on how the country’s consumers fared in a fragile economy, supplemented by a more immediate indicator as the Singles’ Day shopping extravaganza wrapped up earlier last weekend.
China slid back into deflation in October — consumer prices fell 0.2% after hovering near zero for two months — highlighting the country’s struggle to shore up growth through domestic consumption. That’s despite economic growth of 4.9% year-on-year in the third quarter.
