The PMIs for August are in and the weighted manufacturing new orders for the G5 continued to slide. The G5 index fell to 47.2...

Despite the bounce in manufacturing PMI new orders over recent months European industry had a grim start to 2024. January euro area...

The incipient recovery in global manufacturing that began in Q4:2022 has effectively rolled over and died over the past few months.

Diffusion indices like the PMI data can be tricky. And have been particularly so since COVID, because activity trends have been so...

Today's Flash PMIs confirmed that order backlogs peaked in summer 2021 and have plummeted over the last 8 months. Output prices were...