Details of the September 2015 UK Markit CIPS manufacturing PMI data report 1 October 2015
– Prior 51.5. Revised to 51.6
– New orders 52.2 vs 53.3 prior
UK manufacturing stays fairly steady in September, which is a small blessing given the drop we’ve seen recently. On the downside there were job losses noted for the first time since April 2013. Digging deeper, consumer goods producers saw a big slowdown with new orders contracting for the first time in over 3 years