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Services PMI falls to 47.9 in July

05 Aug 2013 Evaluate

Diminishing hopes for a growth recovery in Asia’s third largest economy, services sector, which make up nearly 60% of country’ economics output, fell dramatically during July on account of decline in new businesses amid subdued economic backdrop. The HSBC services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), based on a survey of around 400 companies fell to 47.9 in July from 51.7 in the previous month. It is first time since October 2011, the service PMI slid below the 50 mark that divides growth from contraction and the lowest since April 2009. The survey indicated that the Transport & Storage and Renting & Business Activities sub-sectors were the main drivers of the overall decline.   

Slowdown in service sector activity on account of decline in new business orders also made services firms less optimistic about the year ahead. A sub-index for the Indian PMI that measures new business fell to 47.8 in July from 51.9 in June amid reports of an increasingly fragile economy. Similarly, the HSBC India Composite Output Index, which measures activity in both the manufacturing and services sector, also came down to 48.4 from 50.9 in June, indicating moderate contraction overall.

Further, July data signaled broadly a steady inflation reading even as input prices continuing the trend that started in April 2009, rose during July. Subsequently, services companies increased their selling prices. However, the rate of increase in average selling prices were slower at service providers in the current 33-month inflationary sequence.

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