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Business activity in India expands in May: HSBC Flash India data

23 May 2024 Evaluate

The business activity in India expanded robustly in the month of May, aided by rise in aggregate exports, the steepest expansion in private sector jobs since September 2006 and a notable improvement in business confidence. Although the manufacturing industry continued to lead growth of both sales and output, it was the service economy that was responsible for the latest acceleration in overall economic expansion.

The headline HSBC Flash India Composite Output Index - a seasonally adjusted index that measures the month-on-month change in the combined output of India's manufacturing and service sectors - rose from a final reading of 61.5 in April to 61.7 in May, which indicated the third-strongest rate of expansion in close to 14 years.

The survey further noted that the HSBC Flash India Manufacturing PMI - a single-figure snapshot of factory business conditions calculated from measures of new orders, output, employment, supplier delivery times and stocks of purchases - slipped from 58.8 in April to 58.4 in May, showing the weakest improvement in the health of the sector for three months but one that remained strong by historical standards.

The survey highlighted further signs of strength in new export orders across both the manufacturing and service sectors. At the composite level, international sales expanded at the fastest rate since the inception of the series in September 2014.  On the price front, a faster increase in input costs pushed prices charged for Indian goods and services higher.


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