{"id":624799,"date":"2026-04-23T02:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:27:40","slug":"flash-pmi-gives-rba-reason-to-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624799\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash PMI gives RBA reason to hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flash PMI is out, and it has stabilised.<\/p>\n<p>Flash Australia Composite PMI Output Index: 50.1 Index, sa, &gt;50 = growth m\/m % qr\/qr (Mar: 46.6)<br \/>Flash Australia Services PMI Business Activity Index: 50.3 (Mar: 46.3)<br \/>Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI: 51.0 (Mar: 49.8)<br \/>Flash Australia Manufacturing PMI Output Index: 48.2 (Mar: 49.4)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/23-1.png\" width=\"633\" height=\"433\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After a month of decline in March, the start of the second quarter saw business activity levels stabilise across Australia, according to April Flash PMI\u00ae data by S&amp;P Global. However, the recovery in activity was confined to the service sector as manufacturing output was down for a third month running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The flash PMI is out, and it has stabilised. Flash Australia Composite PMI Output Index: 50.1 Index, sa,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-624799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624799","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=624799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}