China PMIs sink

Friday, 31 May 2019

Trade war landing in China. First the manufacturing PMI:

In May 2019 , the China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index ( PMI ) was 49.4% , down 0.7 percentage points from the previous month .

In terms of enterprise scale, the PMI of large enterprises was 50.3% , which was 0.5 percentage points lower than that of the previous month and still higher than the critical point; the PMI of small and medium-sized enterprises was 48.8% and 47.8% , which were 0.3 and 2.0 percentage points lower than the previous month .

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.