China's Q3 GDP growth accelerates to 4.5%, beating forecast

China's gross domestic product growth accelerated to 4.5 percent in the third quarter, beating economic forecasts. The latest quarterly figure marks an improvement compared to the April-to-June period, which saw a more-than-three-year low of 4.3 percent.

The economic uptick provides new data on the trajectory of the world's second-largest economy following the previous quarter's slowdown.