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A | HONG KONG -- China’s economy remains in the doldrums, data released Friday showed, with prices falling due to slack demand from consumers and businesses. Consumer prices remained flat in September compared with a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said, while wholesale prices fell 2.5%. Exports and imports also fell last month as demand fell in overseas markets. The faltering recovery of the world’s second largest economy from the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic is dragging on regional and global growth, though economists have said the worst might have passed. Trade ticked up slightly from the month before and manufacturing is showing signs of improvement. Earlier this week, the International Monetary Fund cut growth forecasts for China, predicting economic growth of 5% this year and 4.2% in 2024, down slightly from its forecasts in July.The IMF attributed its downward revision to weaker consumer confidence, subdued global demand and a crisis in the property sector that has made a big dent in business activity.China is due to report economic growth data on Oct. 18 and economists are forecasting the economy grew at a 4.4% annual pace in July-September, down from 6.3% in the previous quarter.Friday's data showed food prices dropped 3.2% in September, with the price of pork sliding 22% from a year earlier, a steeper decrease than the 17.9% drop in August.Core inflation, which excludes food and energy prices, rose 0.8% from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said, similar to a 0.8% rise in August.The recovery in domestic consumer demand has been much weaker than hoped for, and excess competition has provoked price wars in some sectors. “September's inflation data remind us that despite some firming in activity indicators recently, China's economic recovery remains challenged,” Robert Carnell of ING Economics said in a report. It forecast that consumer inflation will be at 0.5% for all of 2023 and only rise to 1% in 2024. China's producer price index — which measures prices factories charge wholesalers — has fallen for a full year, though last month it contracted more slowly than in August.Still, China’s manufacturing sector is showing some signs of improvement. A survey of factory managers showed activity returning to growth. The official purchasing managers’ index for September rose to 50.2 from 49.7 in August, the first time it had topped 50 in six months. A reading above 50 indicates an increase from the previous month.Car sales in China rose 4.7% in September from a year earlier, the China Passenger Car Association reported earlier this week. Passenger vehicle sales totaled 2.04 million units. The growth came ahead of the China’s long Mid-Autumn and National Day holidays in October. It's typically a bumper time for car dealers as people buy vehicles ahead of the week-long national holidays.And the real estate sector is muddling through the troubles brought on by a crackdown on heavy borrowing by developers that has hamstrung many home builders.“The housing market appears to have stabilized recently thanks to the latest round of property easing measures, which could drive a modest recovery in home sales and mortgage demand in the coming months,” Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital Economics said in a commentary Friday. China’s global trade remained muted in September, with both exports and imports falling from the same time a year earlier.Imports and exports both slid 6.2% from a year earlier, although the economy declined at a slower rate compared to August after a slew of measures were released to support the economy.。据彭博社报道，北京时间1月9日上午，苹果公司过去一年的收入和利润达到了历史新高，公司市值一度超过1万亿美元。为此，公司首席执行官蒂姆•库克（Tim Cook）获得了2018财年有史以来最大的年度奖金。
B | 苹果在周二提交的一份文件中表示，截至9月29日，库克在2018财年共收到1200万美元年终奖金。再加上他300万美元的薪水和价值1.21亿美元的10年期股票奖励，库克总共获得了1.36亿美元，外加约682000美元的津贴。奖金与收入和营业收入目标挂钩，比上年平均增长16%。但是，明年要保持这样的成绩是比较困难的。上周，苹果宣布大中华区和其他地区对iPhone的需求低于预期，并在近20年来首次下调了收入预测。市场对这一消息的反应立即反映在该公司的股价上，此后股价暴跌了12%。
C | 苹果的其他四位高管也获得了400万美元的奖金，使总薪酬达到每人2650万美元（包括工资和股票奖励）。部分股权与股票回报目标挂钩；其余股权只要仍在苹果工作，就可以使用。库克的大部分薪酬来自于他在2011年获得的巨额股票奖，当时他接替史蒂夫•乔布斯（Steve Jobs）担任苹果首席执行官。股票奖励每年发放一次，并逐步增加。
D | 库克每年获得的股票数量部分取决于苹果相对于其他标准普尔500指数公司的表现。
E | 今年8月，库克赢得56万股，因为苹果的股价在三年内超过了公司股价的三分之二。在上一个财政年度，苹果的股票回报率为49%，其中包括再投资股息。回报几乎是标准普尔的三倍。
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