Hong Kong third-quarter GDP shrinks 3.5% year-on-year, sees modest improvement in next quarter
Reuters
Published Nov 13, 2020 04:03AM ET
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's economy shrank 3.5% in the third quarter compared with a year earlier, the government said on Friday, as the coronavirus pandemic hammered consumer spending, trade and tourism but at a slower pace as the outbreak had eased.
It was the fifth consecutive quarter of year-on-year contractions for the trade-reliant city, but the long recession showed signs of slowing, with a gradual improvement in domestic and external demand on the back of mainland China's recovery.
The third quarter's pace compares with a decline of 9.0% in the previous quarter, and an advance Q3 estimate of a 3.4% contraction.
Activity picked up markedly from a slump early in the year as the government gradually relaxed social distancing measures and people returned to offices and stores.
On a quarterly basis, the economy grew a seasonally adjusted 2.8% for the July-to-September period, after a 0.1% drop in the previous quarter.
The government also revised the real GDP growth forecast for 2020 as a whole to a contraction of 6.1% from negative 6-8%.
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