China's manufacturing business activity continued improving in May, with an important index remaining in expansion territory, official data showed on Monday. The manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI), a key measure of factory ...
Tags: Economy, Manufacturing
Despite concerns over lethargic industrial output and increasing downward pressure in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, growth in China's key emergent sectors fed positive sentiment. Industrial output in China grew 6.4 percent year on year ...
China's confidence in achieving its economic growth rate of around 7 percent this year is not weakened despite rising downward pressure, a senior official said Thursday. The economic development has entered "new normal" and economic ...
Activity in China's services sector grew modestly in February as new orders rose at their quickest pace in three months, a private survey showed just a few days after the central bank cut interest rates to stimulate the world's ...
Tags: HSBC Services, PMI
A gauge of growth in the dominant U.S. services sector fell short of expectations for December, hitting a six-month low as indexes on employment, orders and business activity all declined. The FTSE 100 index was down 0.4 percent at 1209 ...
Tags: services sector, GDP growth
Chinese manufacturers signalled weaker growth momentum at the end of 2014, fresh evidence of headwinds facing the Chinese economy, a recent HSBC report showed. After adjusting for seasonal factors, the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index ...
Tags: Manufacturing Activity
China's non-manufacturing sector activity showed a slight improvement in November, as new export orders and employment added stabilizers to the economy. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector came in at 53.9 ...
Tags: Service Sector, PMI
According to data released by the three largest economy contraction yesterday,encumbered by the weak manufacturing in Germany, France and Italy, the eurozone manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) November final value fell to 50.1, ...
Tags: Manufacturing PMI
The ISM is the important data announced by the institute for supply management that leading indicator of economic health. According to ISM,business can quickly respond to market conditions. It can also reflect the degree of economic ...
In October this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 46.0 percent, up by 2.4 percentage points as compared to September, but still remaining below the 50 percent threshold, as announced by the China ...
Tags: Steel Sector, PMI
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 50.8 percent in October of the current year, down 0.3 percentage points compared to September, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the ...
Tags: PMI, manufacturing sector
In October this year, the China HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) increased to 50.4 - the highest level of the past three months - higher than the anticipated level of 50.2 and up from September's final reading of ...
Tags: PMI, China economy
In September this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 43.6 percent, down by 4.8 percentage points as compared to August, still below the 50 percent threshold and falling to the lowest level of the ...
Tags: Steel Sector, PMI
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector was at 51.1 percent in September of the current year, stable compared to August, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). In the given month, the ...
The Asian price spread between high density polyethylene and ethylene feedstock turned negative Thursday, September 25, falling to minus $5/mt from parity a day before, due to the bearish PE market amid continued firm ethylene, Platts data ...
Tags: HDPE-Ethylene, PE