BMI: Solid expansion in February

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 03. 01. 11:57

The seasonally adjusted February value of the Purchasing Manager Index (BMI): 56.5.

Compared with the previous February values, this year’s value is higher than the long-term average for this month (53.1) and also exceeds the average of the values for this month of the previous three years (53.9).
Among the sub-indices examined in the survey, we can observe increasing sub-indices except for the index of finished product stocks, the index of purchased stocks and the index of new orders. Only in one case did the changes exceed five percentage points.
The value of the employment index is 0.5 percentage points higher this month and shows expansion for the seventeenth time. In the past period, the index hovered around 50.0 points, which expanded at a faster pace in the second month of the year (53.2).