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China's economy shows signs of weakness as shoppers cut back its world business express from the BBC World Service.
I'm Sarah Rogers and Japan raises interest rates to their highest
level in over 30 years and is SpaceX about to become bigger than Amazon.
We start today in China because big parts of its economy have slipped back to COVID-era levels.
Shoppers in the world's second largest economy seem to be tightening their belts.
Retail sales fell by 0.6% in May.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that's the first monthly drop since December
2022. Car and home appliance sales were down whilst China's troubled property sector continued to contract