China’s Q2 GDP growth met government targets at 5.2% YoY, but the recovery remains uneven beneath the headline numbers. High-tech manufacturing and services are driving growth, while real estate and retail sectors continue to struggle, highlighting structural challenges.

Looming U.S. tariffs, together with a real estate market slump feeding into weakening consumer confidence, saw China's GDP growth slow in the second quarter.

Chinas economic growth likely slowed in the second quarter of 2025 as trade tensions and the prolonged property downturn weighed on demand, intensifying pressure on policymakers to step up stimulus efforts.

China's economy grew 5.2% in the second quarter from a year earlier, official data showed on Tuesday, beating analysts' expectations by a touch and showing resilience in the face of U.S. tariffs. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) would expand 5.

S&P 500 EPS growth is expected to come in at 4.8% for Q2, which would be the lowest growth rate since Q4 2023.

Some economists in Singapore have raised their full-year growth forecast for 2025, following better-than-expected second quarter results. According to advance estimates, Q2 GDP expanded 4.3% despite US tariff uncertainty,

The economy grew 4.3 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

After a first quarter upended by a trade war, travel demand has stabilized to last year’s levels, Delta Air Lines said in its second quarter earnings release Thursday.