(Finance) – Increases the manufacturing activity of the United States, while braking that of the services, in January.
The flash estimate on theManufacturing PMI index Elaborated by S&P Global, it indicates a level of 50.1 points, uphill from 49.4 points in December and 49.8 points of analysts’ estimates.
The indicator goes up like this Above the key threshold of 50 pointswhich acts as a watershed between expansion and contraction.
In braking, however, The index of the tertiary sectoralways in January. The flash estimate on the SMEs of the services, published by S&P Global, indicates a value of 52.8 points, which compares with the 56.8 of December and with the 56.4 of the Consensus.
The Composite It therefore stands at 52.4 points from previous 55.4.
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