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Official PMIs Expected To Tick Higher For November

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The market consensus for today's official manufacturing PMI is 49.8 (prior 49.5). The forecast range is 49.0 to 50.1. For the non-manufacturing or services side, the expectation is 50.9 (prior 50.6). The forecast range is 50.4 to 51.6. The composite PMI was 50.7 in Oct, there is no consensus expectation for this print.

  • Given government efforts to boost the growth backdrop, particularly via increased government bond issuance, the market will be looking for signs of stimulus efforts gaining traction in today's data.
  • The China emerging industries PMI has already printed for Nov, falling to 54.7 from 57.8. This PMI has some relationship with the official manufacturing PMI, see the chart below, but it is by no means perfect. This index rose in Oct, while the official PMI fell.

Fig 1: China Official Manufacturing PMI Versus Emerging Industries PMI

Source: MNI - Market News/Bloomberg

  • On the services side, the Standard Chartered China SME index edged down slightly in Nov to 50.9, from 51.0 in Oct. Again, this index has some relationship with the services PMI, but the correlation is comfortably below 1.

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