{"id":429787,"date":"2026-04-23T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/uk-march-flash-services-pmi-52-0-vs-50-0-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:40:12","slug":"uk-march-flash-services-pmi-52-0-vs-50-0-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/04\/uk-march-flash-services-pmi-52-0-vs-50-0-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"UK March flash services PMI 52.0 vs 50.0 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior 50.5<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing PMI 53.6 vs 50.3 expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior 51.0<\/li>\n<li>Composite PMI 52.0 vs 49.9 expected<\/li>\n<li>Prior 50.3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>S&amp;P Global notes that its gauge of input prices in this month showed the biggest monthly increase since records began 28 years ago. This will certainly keep the BoE in a neutral to hawkish stance as cutting rates now would erase all the inflation progress since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also notes &#8220;prices are rising not just because of surging energy costs, but also due to increases in charges levied for a wide variety of goods and services&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior 50.5 Manufacturing PMI 53.6 vs 50.3 expected Prior 51.0 Composite PMI 52.0 vs 49.9 expected Prior 50.3 S&amp;P Global notes that its gauge of input prices in this month showed the biggest monthly increase since records began 28 years ago. This will certainly keep the BoE in a neutral to hawkish stance as cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}