Published on 07/15/2026 at 03:43 am EDT
(MT Newswires) -- Chinese shares fell on Wednesday as the country's second-quarter economic growth fell short of forecasts.
The Shanghai Composite Index, the main gauge of Chinese stocks, closed 0.3% lower at 3,955.58. The Shenzhen Component Index fell 1.0% to 14,779.40.
China's gross domestic product expanded 4.3% year over year in the second quarter, missing the consensus market forecast of a 4.5% growth tracked by Investing.com and slower than the 5% expansion recorded in the preceding quarter.
This brought first-half GDP growth to 4.7%, within Beijing's full-year growth target range of 4.5% to 5%.
Property investment in China fell 18% year over year in H1, sharper than the 16.2% decline recorded in the previous five-month period.
China's retail sales of consumer goods grew 1% year over year to 4.269 trillion yuan in June, rebounding from a 0.6% contraction recorded in the previous month and defying the consensus forecast for a 0.1% decline tracked by Investing.com.
In company news, China Aerospace Times Electronics (SHA:600879) forecasted first-half attributable net profit of between 36 million yuan and 43 million yuan, down from 173.7 million yuan the previous year. Shares of the aerospace company closed 9% lower Wednesday.

Sumber : MT Newswires