Shares Slip on China Growth Jitters as Fed Minutes Loom

A man walks past an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average and stock prices outside a brokerage, in Tokyo, Japan, on March 17, 2023. Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters

LONDON/SYDNEY—Global shares fell on Wednesday as fresh signs of China’s faltering economic recovery emerged, with traders awaiting U.S. Federal Reserve minutes and a key U.S. jobs report later in the week for clues to the central bank’s rate outlook.

In quiet trade following the Independence Day holiday on Wall Street on Tuesday, European stocks slipped 0.6 percent, with German shares down the same amount.