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The seasonally adjusted IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) stood at 52.3 in August, down from 55.3 in July, indicating a softer rate of growth that was subdued and below its long-run average.
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IHS Markit said its manufacturing PMI climbed to 57.1 in December from 56.7 in November.
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A merged LSE and Refinitiv would still be eclipsed by financial data leader Bloomberg LP but it will outrank a combination of S&P and IHS Markit, whose $44 billion deal announced this week was the largest acquisition of 2020.
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Information has always been central to the workings of financial institutions, whether a Swiss private bank, Boston money manager or a City of London investment bank
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S&P Global, valued at around $82 billion, controls the Standard and Poor's ratings agency and traces its roots to the 1860s.
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IHS said the medium-term economic outlook for India remains favourable, supported by a number of key growth drivers.
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A national lockdown began on March 25 and has continued in various phases into the month of June, albeit with significant easing of restrictions since early May.
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Manufacturing continued to shrink in May, testimony to the severity of the lockdown.
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The reduction in employment was the quickest in the survey’s history
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The March numbers had provided a glimpse of how bad things were, but the April data can only be described as horrific.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has left crude oil stranded and may have caught speculators on the wrong foot
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The Nikkei/IHS Markit Services Purchasing Managers' Index climbed to 57.5 in February from January's 55.5. It was the highest reading since January 2013 and comfortably above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction for a fourth month.
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With the exception of the government shutdown of 2013, US business activity contracted in February for the first time since the global financial crisis
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The PMIs show a divergence between the US and the other economies, but that has been around for quite some time.
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The upturn is among the weakest in the last one and a half years
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A survey by IHS Markit shows that sentiment towards output, profitability and capital spending are at their lowest levels since 2009
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Capital markets in Asia are diverse, characterized by differing levels of structural maturity, complex regulatory frameworks
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That seems to suggest that goods producers too believe that this is a cyclical slowdown which will pass in some time. Remember that the RBI has predicted that economic growth will be better from the second half of the current year itself.
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The IHS Markit India Composite PMI for July at eight-month high
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The IHS Markit India survey says conditions in the manufacturing sector improved in July
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Businesses are discouraged from investing when demand is tepid. We need to watch out for the precursors of a permanent lowering of income expectations by consumers. It is time to shine the spotlight on the structural aspects of the slowdown.
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The reasons for plummeting optimism are all too familiar. Companies are worried about a slowing economy, public policies, weak sales, rupee depreciation, lack of skilled labour and even water shortages.
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Will the economy revive once the political uncertainty is over?
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The Nikkei India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index strengthened from 52.2 in September to 53.1 in October as new orders and production increased at the quickest rate in four months.
