{"id":628071,"date":"2026-05-07T03:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:08:13","slug":"canadas-ivey-pmi-rises-to-seven-month-high-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/628071\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Ivey PMI rises to seven-month high in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">TORONTO, May 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Canadian economic activity expanded in \u200cApril at the fastest \u200cpace in seven months as measures of \u200bemployment and prices accelerated, Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data showed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The seasonally adjusted \u200cindex rose \u2060to 57.7 last month from 49.7 in March, \u2060marking its highest level since September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The Ivey PMI measures \u200bthe month \u200bto month \u200bvariation in economic \u200cactivity as indicated by a panel of purchasing managers from across Canada. A reading above 50 indicates an increase \u200cin activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The gauge \u200bof employment rose \u200bto \u200ban adjusted 54.7 from \u200c51.1 in March, while \u200bthe \u200bprices index was at 76.6, up from 75.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The unadjusted \u200bPMI \u200crose to 61.5 from 56.5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Fergal Smith; Editing \u200bby Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO, May 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Canadian economic activity expanded in \u200cApril at the fastest \u200cpace in seven months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[34586,192,271707,79,264469],"class_list":["post-628071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-economic-activity","tag-environment","tag-ivey-purchasing-managers-index","tag-science","tag-seasonally-adjusted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}