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March 2024 PMI Shows Record Increase in Selling Prices, Decrease in Employment

by Techeconomy
April 3, 2024
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The impact of currency weakness on the Nigerian private sector was evident again in March.

Purchase costs rose at the sharpest rate on record, meaning companies increased their own selling prices at an unprecedented pace.

The rate of expansion in business activity ticked higher, but steep price rises acted to limit demand and the pace of new order growth eased to a four-month low.

Meanwhile, employment decreased for the second month running. The headline figure derived from the survey is the Stanbic IBTC Bank Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI).

Readings above 50.0 signal an improvement in business conditions on the previous month, while readings below 50.0 show a deterioration.

The headline PMI was unchanged at 51.0 in March, the joint-lowest in four months.

The latest reading pointed to a slight improvement in business conditions during the month, and one that was softer than the series trend. Price pressures remained elevated in March.

In fact, the rate of purchase price inflation hit a fresh record high for the second consecutive month, largely due to the impact of currency weakness.

There were also some reports of higher transportation costs. Employee pay was also increased in response to cost-of-living pressures, resulting in the sharpest rise in staff costs since last November.

In line with the picture for purchase costs, the rate of output price inflation was also the steepest since the series began in January 2014 as close to 69% of respondents increased their charges over the month.

With prices rising sharply, firms faced challenges securing new orders.

Although new business increased for the fourth month running as some companies noted greater client interest, the rate of expansion was the softest in the current sequence of growth.

The rate of expansion in business activity quickened slightly from February, but remained relatively modest.

Increases in activity were seen in each of the agriculture, manufacturing, wholesale & retail and services categories.

While output and new orders continued to rise, employee resignations caused staffing levels to decrease marginally for the second month running. Purchasing activity returned to growth, however, following a reduction in the previous survey period.

Where input buying increased, this was linked to efforts to meet new order requirements in a timely manner.

This was also a factor behind sustained growth of inventories. That said, backlogs of work ticked higher amid the high cost of materials and delays in payments by customers.

Suppliers’ delivery times, meanwhile, continued to shorten, in part thanks to muted demand for inputs and prompt payments.

Confidence in the year-ahead outlook for business activity strengthened from the previous month’s record low, but remained relatively weak at the end of the first quarter of the year.

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