Earlier this month we’ve had the official PMIs from China:
China Manufacturing PMI (July 2025) 49.3 (vs. 49.7 expected)
and the S&P Manufacturing PMI:
China Caixin July 2025 Manufacturing PMI 49.5 (expected 50.3, prior 50.4)
Today we get the final of main PMIs for July, S&P Services and S&P Composite PMIs. Both are expected to have slipped just a little from June but remain in expansion.
Also of note are the Bank of Japan June meeting minutes. These are a bit stale really. Since then we’ve had the July meeting with updated forecasts etc.:
BOJ leaves short term at 0.5%, as expectedInvestingLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: Chinese PMIs disappoint, BoJ on hold as expectedinvestingLive European markets wrap: Yen falls on Ueda presser, US futures keep higherThis snapshot from the economic data calendarThe times in the left-most column are GMT.The numbers in the right-most column are the ‘prior’ (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.
This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.