Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China’s fixed-asset investment excluding rural households increased 24.9 percent in the first ten months of the year from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said on its website today. That compares with the 24.8 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 24 economists and a 24.9 percent gain in the first nine months of the year.

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