China Non-Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI)

Country: China, CNY
Importance:
Medium
Sector: Business
Last release
Actual
50.1
Forecast
49.6
Previous
49.4
Next release
Actual
Coming in 12 days
Forecast
49.7
Previous
50.1
Date (GMT)
Reference
Actual
Forecast
Jan 2013
56.2
Dec 2012
56.1
Nov 2012
55.6
Oct 2012
55.5
Sep 2012
53.7
Aug 2012
56.3
Jul 2012
55.6
Jun 2012
56.7
May 2012
55.2
Apr 2012
56.1
Mar 2012
58.0
Feb 2012
48.4
Jan 2012
52.9
Dec 2011
56.0

China Non-Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an alternative indicator of China's service sector PMI, which is calculated by state statistics bodies. The calculation is based on a monthly survey of purchasing managers from 4000 Chinese service sector companies.

The questionnaire includes questions about the following business condition aspects in the past month: production, new orders, inventories, prices, employment, supplier deliveries, expectations for business activity for the next 6 months.

Readings above 50 point to a general growth of service sector activity, and readings below 50 indicate a decline. Growth of non-manufacturing PMI may affect yuan quotes positively.

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