BMI: Moderate expansion in January
The seasonally adjusted January value of the Purchasing Manager Index (BMI): 55.0.
Compared with the previous January values, this year’s value is higher than the long-term average for this month (52.9) and also exceeds the average of the values for this month of the previous three years (54.6).
Among the sub-indices examined in the survey, we can observe decreasing sub-indices, except for the index of finished product stocks and the index of purchased stocks. The rate of changes only reached ten percentage points in one case.
The value of the employment index is 2.7 percentage points lower this month, but it shows expansion for the sixteenth time. In the past period, the index also hovered around 50.0 points, which expanded at a slower pace in January (52.7).
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