While COVID-19 containment measures continued to dampen demand in the domestic market, China's manufacturers also reported a steepening loss of exports
The downturn looks likely to gather further momentum, with Chinese manufacturers' expectations of their output levels in the coming 12 months slumping sharply
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The key data will be the new orders indices, and what they are telling us about the environment in which central banks are hiking interest rates. It's not been looking great up to June ...
With forward-looking #PMI indicators such as business expectations, new orders and backlogs of work signalling worse is yet to come, euro area #GDP looks set to contract in the third quarter
Flash #Germany#PMI Composite Output Index falls to 51.3 in June (May 53.7, consensus 53.1), a 6-month low and indicative of GDP contracting. As with France, consensus well and truly missed
Manufacturing Output Index at 49.0 (May: 51.2) amid steepest drop in factory orders for two years. Services PMI at 5-month low of 52.4 (May: 55.0) with demand also now falling.
German businesses also reported their lowest confidence towards future activity for over two years in June, led by worsening prospects in manufacturing. This points to a worsening economic decline in coming months
Big miss for French PMI ... Flash #France#PMI Composite Output Index slides to 52.8 in June (May 57.0), a 5-month low and way below expectations of 56.0. Manufacturing output index at just 45.7 (PMI at 51.0) with services index down to 54.4. bit.ly/3bmbj41
So French manufacturing is in a steep decline and the service sector is losing momentum rapidly.
Forward-looking indicators have also turned down sharply in #France. Confidence slid to a 19-month low in June, while new orders and backlogs of work rose at the slowest rates for 14 months
The flash S&P Global/CIPS composite #PMI fell from 60.9 in March to 57.6 in April. Although broadly consistent with GDP growing at a quarterly rate of 0.7-8%, the latest reading signals a marked slowing in the pace of growth 1/
UK service sector business inflows grew at the slowest rate in 2022 to date. In manufacturing, order book growth has lost momentum, driven by an increasing loss of export sales, to result in the weakest rise in new orders since January 2021. 2/
#UK manufacturers and service providers reported demand having been hit by high COVID-19 infection rates and spending power having been squeezed by higher prices, but Brexit was also seen as having hit exports, and the Ukraine war/sanctions was cited as an additional headwind 3/
The PMI data in particular will help assess the economic impact of the Omicron variant. Global growth slowed to a 1½ year low in January with a sharp rise in the number of firms reporting output being constrained by staff shortages & illness linked to Omicron ...
More encouragingly, the incidence of output being constrained by materials shortages continued to fall from a pandemic-peak recorded last October.
Global economic growth slowed at the end of 2021 amid rising COVID-19 infection rates linked to #Omicron. However, at 54.3, the Global PMI signals above-trend annualised quarterly global GDP growth of approx. 3.5%.
The December global PMI was pulled lower by a slowing of service sector growth, which slipped to the weakest for three months. In contrast, manufacturing growth accelerated to the fastest since July, albeit running behind that of services for the ninth month running.
The widening spread of the Omicron variant led to renewed restrictions (imposed and voluntary) on service sector activity in some economies during December. Manufacturers meanwhile reported that constraints on production had eased, though nonetheless remaining a significant drag.