Companies are also downsizing their workforces at the fastest rate since 2009, apart from the extraordinary months of pandemic lockdowns.
The PMI - seen by economists as one of the key predictors of economic activity - works by assigning a score to a sector, with any score below 50 being thought to show contraction. The further away from 50, the faster the contraction.
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