{"id":15135,"date":"2012-10-01T17:23:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africas-pmi-falls-to-46-2-in-september\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:23:44","slug":"s-africas-pmi-falls-to-46-2-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-pmi-falls-to-46-2-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s PMI falls to 46.2 in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s seasonally<br \/>\nadjusted Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index fell into contractionary<br \/>\nterritory in September, a survey showed on Monday, hitting its<br \/>\nlowest level in 14 months and pointing to weak manufacturing<br \/>\nproduction in the third quarter.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The index lost four index points to 46.2 in September,<br \/>\nslipping below the 50 mark which separates expansion from<br \/>\ncontraction for the first time since June this year, survey<br \/>\nsponsor Kagiso Tiso Holdings said. This was its weakest showing<br \/>\nsince July 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pullback does not bode well for actual factory sector<br \/>\noutput in Q3,&#8221; said Andre Coetzee, managing director of the<br \/>\nChartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decline in the domestic PMI matches trends in the<br \/>\nfactory sectors of South Africa&#8217;s key trading partners, with<br \/>\nChina&#8217;s September reading coming in at 49.8, while the index for<br \/>\nthe euro zone also remains below 50.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Agnieszka Flak)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index fell into contractionary territory in September, a survey showed on Monday, hitting its lowest level in 14 months and pointing to weak manufacturing production in the third quarter. The index lost four index points to 46.2 in September, slipping below the 50 mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}