BEIJING — China posted a disappointing slowdown in trade — both imports and exports — for September, with exports falling a much worse than expected 10% and imports shrinking, after a repeat of August’s increase was anticipated.The data suggest signs that the world’s second-largest economy was steadying may be short-lived.Nonetheless, despite the overall decline, China went on an unexpected spree for crude oil, coal and iron ore, the customs data showed on Thursday, even as Beijing cools its overheated property market.The disappointing trade figures pointed to weaker demand both at home and aboard, and deepened concerns over the latest depreciation in China’s yuan currency, which hit a fresh six-year low against a firming US dollar on Thursday."This comes on the heels of weak South Korean trade data, and it definitely makes us worry about to what extent global demand is improving," said Luis Kujis, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong.But China’s daily crude impor...
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