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Shares mixed as China says 2018 growth slowest since ’90

January 21, 2019

Via: ABC News

World shares are mixed after China reported that its economy expanded at a 6.6 percent annual pace in 2018, its slowest pace since the slump that followed the crackdown on protests centered on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

KEEPING SCORE: Germany’s DAX fell 0.4 percent to 11,159.97 while the CAC 40 in France slipped 0.2 percent to 4,865.51. Britain’s FTSE 100 added 0.2 percent to 6,978.60. On Wall Street, the future contract for the Dow Jones industrial average fell 0.3 percent to 24,603.00 while that for the S&P 500 also fell 0.3 percent, to 2,662.70.

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