Summary:
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UK services PMI: 49.5 vs 50.3 exp. 50.6 prior
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Reading hints at fair chance of technical recession
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Minimal reaction in GBP however; far more interested in Brexit
The most recent look at the service sector has raised some serious concerns about the health of the industry with the PMI reading for September falling below the 50 mark and into contractionary territory. Coming shortly after weak readings from the manufacturing and construction sector this data makes it a triple whammy of bad news for the UK economy is as many days and points to a GDP fall of 0.1% in Q3. Should this occur then the UK would enter a technical recession under the widely held definition of two consecutive quarters of negative growth - and that’s before we’ve even got that close to the current October 31st deadline for leaving the EU.
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The PMI readings from the UK make for pretty grim viewing with the only bright spot lately coming from manufacturing which has been artificially propped up from contingency measures surrounding Brexit. Source: XTB Macrobond
Earlier the equivalent releases from across Europe on the whole came in worse than expected with German, French and Euro-wide services PMIs all missing forecasts. This afternoon we get the leading industry survey on the US service sector and this could have further reaching implications than just for US assets.
Some fairly small scale selling was seen in the pound since the data dropped and a tick higher in UK bonds proved short lived and traders remains far more interested in the latest developments on the Brexit front. EURGBP is back near the prior resistance level around 0.8914 which also broadly coincides with the 23.6% fib retracement of the recent declines. Source: xStation
A disastrous reading on Tuesday from the ISM manufacturing release sent global stocks into a tailspin with the indicator falling to its lowest level in a decade and raising serious doubts about the notion that the world’s largest economy is holding up relatively well against a backdrop of slowing global growth. Another disappointment later would ratchet up these concerns further and with the concerns on the trade front growing once more after Trump’s administration announced plans to impose 25% tariffs on a wide range of EU imports, risk sentiment is clearly vulnerable at present.
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