TOKYO -- Chinese goods producers may be feeling squeezed by spiking input costs, but a wave of profit updates from the country's resource producers highlight the windfall coming their way.
Beijing on Thursday reported a 10.7% year-on-year rise in the country's producer price index, the biggest jump since China began compiling such data 25 years ago. A key driver was higher prices for coal, the fuel used in most of the country's power plants.
