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People wearing face masks shop clothing during a promotion New Year sale at a mall in Beijing on Jan. 16, 2022. China’s economic growth edged up to a still-weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the first three months of 2022 as spreading coronavirus outbreaks prompted shutdowns of major industrial cities. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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China's economy grows still-weak 4.8% in January-March
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writer
Sun,04/17/22-9:11PM , 256 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth edged up to a still-weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the first three months of 2022 as industrial cities shut down to fight coronavirus outbreaks, threatening to disrupt global trade and manufacturing.
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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a worker carries a box of supplies at a makeshift hospital in Shanghai, China, Friday, April 15, 2022. Anti-virus controls that have shut down some of China's biggest cities and fueled public irritation are spreading as infections rise, hurting a weak economy and prompting warnings of possible global shockwaves. (Yang Youzong/Xinhua via AP)

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Anti-virus shutdowns in China spread as infections rise
By JOE MCDONALD - Associated Press
Thu,04/14/22-6:19AM , 179 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Anti-virus controls that have shut down some of China’s biggest cities and fueled public irritation are spreading as infections rise, hurting a weak economy and prompting warnings of possible global shockwaves.
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A man looks at his smartphone on a balcony in a residential community in Shanghai, China, Monday, April 11 2022. The U.S. has ordered all non-emergency consular staff to leave Shanghai, which is under a tight lockdown to contain a COVID-19 surge. Many residents in the city of 26 million have been confined to their homes for up to three weeks as China maintains its "zero-COVID" strategy of handling outbreaks with strict isolation and mass testing. (AP Photo)

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Shanghai eases 2-week shutdown, letting some residents out
By JOE MCDONALD - Associated Press
Tue,04/12/22-2:43AM , 192 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Some residents of Shanghai were allowed out of their homes as the city of 25 million eased a two-week-old shutdown Tuesday after a video posted online showed what was said to be people who ran out of food breaking into a supermarket.
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A man walks past a bank's electronic board showing the Hong Kong share index at Hong Kong Stock Exchange Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Asian stock markets fell again Tuesday as investors waited for U.S. inflation data amid unease about higher interest rates, Chinese efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks and Russia's war on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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Asian stocks fall as investors await U.S. profits, inflation
By JOE MCDONALD - AP Business Writers
Mon,04/11/22-12:49AM , 201 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets fell again Tuesday as investors waited for U.S. inflation data amid unease about higher interest rates, Chinese efforts to contain coronavirus outbreaks and Russia's war on Ukraine.

Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul fell. Oil prices rose more than $2 per barrel.
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