{"id":437296,"date":"2026-09-01T16:40:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/france-manufacturing-confirmed-to-pick-up-a-little-in-august-pmi-data-437296\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:40:05","slug":"france-manufacturing-confirmed-to-pick-up-a-little-in-august-pmi-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/france-manufacturing-confirmed-to-pick-up-a-little-in-august-pmi-data-437296\/","title":{"rendered":"France manufacturing confirmed to pick up a little in August &#8211; PMI data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>France August final manufacturing PMI 51.1 vs 51.5 prelim<\/li>\n<li>Prior 49.8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">This reaffirms a mild rebound in French manufacturing activity in August, bolstered by better production growth. That being said, new orders continued to shrink further and that&#8217;s a signal that demand conditions remain rather subdued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">Some added good news at least is that inflationary pressures receded further on the month, even as<br \/>\nsuppliers&#8217; delivery times lengthened to a sharper degree.\u00a0Both<br \/>\ninput prices and output charges rose at their slowest rates<br \/>\nsince February, but still above levels seen before the US-Iran conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">S&amp;P Global notes that:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\"><p>&#8220;On the surface, it&#8217;s a much better PMI report for<br \/>\nFrance&#8217;s manufacturing sector, but it&#8217;s difficult to draw<br \/>\nmuch optimism from these figures as the data reveal<br \/>\nstill-weak demand, falling business confidence and more<br \/>\naggressive destocking. This makes August&#8217;s renewed<br \/>\noutput expansion an unconvincing one.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\"><p>&#8220;Falling inflationary pressures are a positive outcome<br \/>\nconsidering the step-up in oil prices over the summer.<br \/>\nThe disinflationary trend seen in factory gate prices<br \/>\ncould provide a much-needed tailwind for order books.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\" class=\"text-align-justify\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Justin Low at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France August final manufacturing PMI 51.1 vs 51.5 prelim Prior 49.8 This reaffirms a mild rebound in French manufacturing activity in August, bolstered by better production growth. That being said, new orders&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-437296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437296","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=437296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}