Signal · Regulation & Trade
India's factory growth at five-year low in August on weakening demand, PMI shows
What the source reported
Source-reportedIndia’s manufacturing growth slowed to a five-year low in August as weak demand dragged new orders and output lower, while factory employment declined for the first time in 30 months. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI fell to 52.8 from 53.5 in July, though firms reported easing input cost pressures.
- Publication
- The Economic Times - Economy · Trade Publication
- Published
- 1st September 2026
- Original report
- economictimes.indiatimes.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Regulation & Trade
- Geography
- India
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 1st September 2026 · 09:22
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (32.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (33.0/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth