Logo 05 Dec 2019

PMI readings are noise, not signal

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Good news! China’s economy is finally out of the woods.
At least that’s what you might be led to believe by the string of recent purchasing manager indices (PMIs) for November.
The details:

On Saturday, the official manufacturing PMI came in at 50.2 – up from 49.3 previously and marking the highest...