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Manufacturing in growth for first time in 14 months
Daily Express
|December 02, 2025
MANUFACTURING firms said output was up last month — for the first time in more than a year.
The S&P Global UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) hit a 14-month high of 50.2 in November, up from 49.7 in October.
This placed the industry above the 50 mark which indicates if a sector is growing.
The survey closed a day before Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on November 26. And S&P’s global market intelligence boss Rob Dobson said: “It will be interesting to see the extent to which business might react to the absence of any significant growth-promoting measures.
This story is from the December 02, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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