Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace Morning Report

China's economy hits a rough patch

December 15, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This fast-paced daily news briefing delivers bite-sized economic updates through host narration, expert interviews, and field reports, centering on global and U.S. market pressures in a post-shutdown data catch-up environment. Professional and data-driven.
  • The Format: A host-led news segment blending solo reporting, a brief expert interview, and a partnered field report.
  • The Key Players:
    • Sabri Ben-Achour: Energetic host steering the Marketplace Morning Report with crisp transitions between global woes and domestic forecasts.
    • Julia Coronado: Founder and president of Macro Policy Perspectives, plus University of Texas at Austin professor, brought in for her sharp insights on delayed U.S. jobs and inflation data.
    • Reporters: Nancy Marshall-Genzer on China's slump; BBC's Michelle Fleury on U.S. holiday hiring woes, adding on-the-ground color.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 `(00:00)` **🎙️ Introduction: Julia Coronado**
  • 2 `(00:46)` **China's Economy Hits Rough Patch**
  • 3 `(02:04)` **Preview of Delayed US Economic Data**
  • 4 `(04:57)` **Holiday Retailers Hiring Fewer Seasonal Workers**

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Show Notes

There’s more evidence that China’s economy is stalling. Beijing released a batch of government data today that was not encouraging. Chinese consumers have slammed their wallets shut, and data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China paints a picture of stagnating investment, output, and consumption. And later, we'll preview long-delayed economic data slated to come out this week and learn why retailers are hiring fewer workers for the holiday shopping season.

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