{"id":8480,"date":"2012-03-01T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T12:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africas-pmi-jumps-to-57-9-in-february\/"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T12:48:14","slug":"s-africas-pmi-jumps-to-57-9-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-pmi-jumps-to-57-9-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s PMI jumps to 57.9 in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 1<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nPurchasing Managers&#8217; Index jumped to a two-year high of 57.9 in<br \/>\nFebruary from 53.2 in January, sponsors Kagiso Asset Management<br \/>\nsaid on Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The seasonally adjusted business activity and new sales<br \/>\norders indices, which have the biggest weighting, drove the<br \/>\nrobust increase in February.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New sales orders, a leading indicator, and expected business<br \/>\nconditions increased further, pointing to a supportive<br \/>\nenvironment for business in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/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, March 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index jumped to a two-year high of 57.9 in February from 53.2 in January, sponsors Kagiso Asset Management said on Thursday. The seasonally adjusted business activity and new sales orders indices, which have the biggest weighting, drove the robust increase in February. New sales orders, a [&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-8480","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\/8480","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=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}