{"id":18995,"date":"2025-07-24T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18995\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:04:12","slug":"uk-firms-cut-jobs-new-orders-as-economy-struggles-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/18995\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Firms Cut Jobs, New Orders as Economy Struggles to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Britain\u2019s private sector lost momentum in July as the fallout from the Labour government\u2019s first budget and a febrile global backdrop prompted firms to cut jobs and new orders, according to a closely watched survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">S&amp;P Global\u2019s purchasing managers\u2019 index slipped to 51 in July from the nine-month high of 52 the previous month. It was slightly worse than the 51.8 reading expected by economists surveyed by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s private sector lost momentum in July as the fallout from the Labour government\u2019s first budget and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,20098,99,20097,5693,164,181,75,3786,180,18460,171,10839,8193,3586],"class_list":["post-18995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-pound-spot","tag-business","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-environment","tag-government","tag-jobs","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-markets","tag-policy","tag-taxes","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}