China's Shanghai Composite slipped 0.1%, to a six-week low, after the country's National Bureau of Statistics indicated net income from China's largest industrial groups dropped 5.2% in the first two months of the year.
Using nationalstatistics and complicated formulas to calculate spending, the system will flag tax returns where the income clearly differs from the estimated consumption.
That year, electricity prices rose 4.6% and gas prices rose 13.4%, according to the Office for NationalStatistics, and those rises would have had a bigger effect on households spending a higher proportion of their income on fuel.