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China's latest inflation figures are out at 9:30 p.m. ET.

Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for producer prices to fall 1.5% year-over-year, compared with a 2% fall the previous month.

Meanwhile, consumer prices are expected to rise 2.4% YoY, compared with a 1.8% rise in April.

Chinese CPI will likely be driven by rising food, especially pork prices,  Jian Chang and Serena Zhou at Barclays wrote ahead of the data release.

“We think the turnaround in pork prices is mostly attributable to the government’s efforts to reverse the decline in prices in this sector," they write. "But we do not expect this to pose a significant risk to our 2014 CPI inflation forecast of 2.4%.”

Here's a look at the recent drop in sow stock and the rise in prices:

china pork chart

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