{"id":394502,"date":"2026-01-07T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394502\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:12:08","slug":"canadian-economic-activity-expanded-in-december-ivey-pmi-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394502\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian economic activity expanded in December, Ivey PMI shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/Q4ZPOJOHMVAITIRWE5DO5QGSBE.JPG?auth=d5903ba37f070b50b29a5c73bda4f2857adea683fb8a59684b810176d8a460de&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">CAE employees work in the CAE manufacturing plant in Montreal on December 11, 2025. &#13;(11\/12\/2025)Andrej Ivanov\/The Globe and Mail<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Canadian \u200beconomic activity expanded \u200din December as employment increased at the \u200dfastest \u200bpace in 10 months, Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The seasonally \u2060adjusted index rose to 51.9 last month from 48.4 in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Ivey PMI \u200cmeasures \u200dthe month to \u200dmonth variation in economic \u200cactivity as indicated \u2060by a panel \u200bof purchasing managers from across Canada. A reading above 50 indicates an increase in activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The \u200bgauge of employment increased to an adjusted 53.0 from 48.0 in November, posting its highest \u2060level since February, while \u2060the prices index was at \u200c63.2, down from 66.1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The unadjusted PMI dipped to 43.3 from 44.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: CAE employees work in the CAE manufacturing plant in Montreal on December 11,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-394502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}