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China's factory activity returns to growth in September

Rank
Ran
21h
Updated
5d ago
Final
Outlets
10
Regions
3
Countries
9
Languages
3

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Bloomberg United States · English 30 Sept, 01:34 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Português (3) · Русский (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 21 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Bloomberg, 30 Sept, 01:34 UTC.
  2. Second country: Malaysia, with Free Malaysia Today.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Free Malaysia Today.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 30 Sept, 06:30 UTC.
  5. Last article: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

22 of 22 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Americas 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 50%

First movers

  1. Bloomberg 30 Sept, 01:34 UTC
  2. Free Malaysia Today +1h 18m
  3. The Independent +3h 23m
  4. RTP +4h 56m
  5. CNA +5h 5m

Last to join

  1. Kommersant 30 Sept, 22:55 UTC
  2. Hellenic Shipping News 30 Sept, 17:00 UTC
  3. CNN Brasil 30 Sept, 12:08 UTC
  4. Observador 30 Sept, 11:02 UTC
  5. Business Recorder 30 Sept, 07:21 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 9 countries, across 3 regions, 1 of them trade press. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 public-service, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 2: Brazil, United States. Asia-Pacific 3: Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore. Europe 4: Greece, Portugal, Russia, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Portuguese, Russian.
Timeline
Earliest article Bloomberg, 30 Sept 2026, 01:34 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 01:50 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 22:55 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, China. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
30 Sept 2026 104 10.47 10 9 10 9 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 01:50 UTC · Updated 22:55 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Americas 2 outlets

  • CNN Brasil Brazil 30 Sept, 12:08 UTC
    Atividade industrial da China cresce em setembro em meio ao boom da IA
  • Bloomberg United States 30 Sept, 03:09 UTC
    China’s Economic Activity Rebounds With Stimulus Lifting Outlook
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    • China Factory Activity Returns to Expansion as Outlook Brightens 30 Sept, 01:34 UTC

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Business Recorder Pakistan 30 Sept, 07:21 UTC
    Chinese factory activity expands in September amid AI boom
  • CNA Singapore 30 Sept, 06:39 UTC
    China factory activity returns to growth in September
  • Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 30 Sept, 02:52 UTC
    China’s factory activity returns to growth in September

Europe 5 outlets

  • Kommersant Russia 30 Sept, 22:55 UTC
    МВФ: индекс деловой активности Китая возобновил рост в промышленности и услугах
  • Hellenic Shipping News Greece 30 Sept, 17:00 UTC
    China factory activity grows at fastest pace in 5 months in Sept: RatingDog PMI
  • Observador Portugal 30 Sept, 11:02 UTC
    Atividade industrial da China regressa ao crescimento
  • RTP Portugal 30 Sept, 06:30 UTC
    Atividade industrial da China regressa ao crescimento em setembro
  • The Independent United Kingdom 30 Sept, 04:57 UTC
    Factory activity returns to expansion in a positive sign for China’s economy
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