Unrelenting inflation continued to worry businesses that were cautiously optimistic about the year-ahead outlook for business activity
The S&P Global India Services Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 53.6 in March from 51.8 in February, beating the 52.5 estimate in a Reuters poll.
While Covid hit services exports harder than manufacturing, the share of the former in global services exports seems to support the call experts have made in favour of the sector
The IHS Markit Services Purchasing Managers' Index eased to 55.2 in September from August's 18-month high of 56.7, but stayed comfortably above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction.
In a Q&A, UKIBC's group chair lists out three areas that need focus - tariff reduction in some sectors, removal of non-tariff barriers on goods, and aligning data protection rules
Firms cut jobs at fastest pace in 6 months as local lockdowns hurt demand
Growth in India's dominant services sector eased to three-month low in April but remained unexpectedly resilient even as Covid-19 crisis intensified and cost pressures rose at fastest pace in 9 years
Official data on Friday is likely to show that India exited a recession in the final three months of 2020, with economists in a Bloomberg survey forecasting a GDP expansion of 0.5% from a year ago
GDP contraction of 7.7% is much smaller than expected, DEA says
At the start of the week, the market will also take cues from July auto sales numbers which signal a recovery in the sector hit hard by Covid-19
Services sector remains in deep downturn as job losses continue
Services activity in the country has suffered a lot amid back-to-back nationwide lockdowns to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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Exports zoom but job growth at 3-month low
The dominant sector of the economy had suffered two straight-months of contraction since September
He emphasised that these two sectors need to work together, as without services, manufacturing cannot succeed and without manufacturing, services cannot grow
He said the services sector has huge potential and it contributes in a significant way to the Indian economy.
In PMI parlance, a print above 50 means expansion while a score below that denotes contraction
The Reserve Bank of India and investment banks such as Goldman Sachs are betting on a revival in private investments in Asia's third-largest economy