BEIJING China 's factory activity shrank for a seventh straight month in October, official data showed on Oct. 31, as trade uncertainty ahead of talks between President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump weighed on the economic powerhouse. The manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index came in at 49, marking another contraction, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The reading missed a forecast of 49.6 by a Bloomberg survey of economists and was down 0.8 percentage

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