Global growth in soft recovery

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The global services PMI in April rose further into expansionary territory, increasing 0.3 pts to 52.7, with the services PMIs of all major economies showing expansionary levels for the first time since May 2023.

The global services PMI has now risen for six consecutive months, and recent gains have been driven by a recovery in the euro area data including particularly large increases in Germany and France.

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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.