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Brazil Manufacturing PMIs gained serious speed in 3Q 2020 compared to 2Q 2020. China Manufacturing PMI rose from 2Q 2020 reading of 50.4 to 3Q 2020 reading of 53.0. The ongoing recovery across the BRIC economies is faster than Global Manufacturing PMI recovery. For further d...

Despite a growing economic and technological decoupling between China and the West, the financial divide is actually shrinking. China's bond market - now the second largest in the world - has seen increased foreign participation, especially in its government bond market, where foreign...

Based on Markit's Composite PMIs, here are the BRIC economies' composite economic activity indicators for 3Q 2020 to-date (July-August). Please note: Manufacturing PMIs for BRIC economies were covered here and Services PMIs were covered here . Brazil Composite PMI for 3Q 2020 currentl...

Services sector activity as reflected by PMIs from the BRIC economies is now available for August, so here are the top numbers: In terms of actual readings, and do recall, quarterly PMIs referenced above are averages over three months period, so 3Q 2020 data is only covering July-August 2020...

Updating BRIC Manufacturing PMIs - with some delay (sorry, start of the academic year): These are quarter averages, with July-August for 2020. And we have: A mad print for Brazil. In the last four months, Brazil Manufacturing PMI went from 38.3 in May to 51.6 in June, 58.2 in July and a ...

By Laurent Saltiel, Sergey Davalchenko, & Naveen Jayasundaram Emerging market stocks are having a difficult time in the COVID-19 crisis, but not all industries - or countries - are struggling. And many businesses have the right qualities to benefit from structural changes now and long ...

As promised earlier , here are the BRIC Services and Composite PMIs for 2Q 2020 with updated Global PMIs. Note: my charts show quarterly PMIs, derived from the Markit's monthly data. Services sectors : As the above shows, 2Q 2020, services sector growth in India and Russia lagged global ...

BRIC economies reported their June manufacturing PMIs, so we can update Q2 2020 data. Here is the chart: Despite improving PMIs in all BRIC economies through June 2020, quarterly readings remain deeply recessionary in all BRICs except for China. Brazil Manufacturing PMI averaged 40.6 ...

Services PMIs for BRIC economies were out Wednesday, so we can updated 2Q figures to include data for May. The latest monthly print imply slight moderation in the economic contraction in Brazil, India and Russia, with return to Services sector growth in China. This marks the first month since ...

With Russia and China data finally in, here are the full updated BRIC PMIs for April (Note: Manufacturing has been covered in more detail here ). Sharp drop in Manufacturing PMIs in April compared to 1Q 2020 were accompanied by even more spectacular declines in Services PMIs: Across the B...