BEIJING – China’s inflation accelerated in April, bank lending exceeded estimates and property prices jumped by a record, increasing pressure on the government to raise interest rates and let the currency appreciate.
Consumer prices rose 2.8 percent in April from a year earlier, and property prices jumped 12.8 percent, the statistics bureau said Tuesday. New lending of $113 billion was more than any of 24 economists had forecast.
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