Australia - Services PMI for July: 56.4 (prior 54.8)

Australian Industry Group Performance of Services Index, more strong data from Australia.

The services PMI does not attract the attention the manufacturing PMI does (and that isn't much anyway) despite services being a larger sector of the economy than manufacturing. Go figure.

• 5th successive month of expansion for this index

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Earlier this week: Australia -AIG Manufacturing PMI for July: 56.0 (prior was 55.0)

And, earlier today:

• Australia - July PMI CBA/Markit Composite 56.7 (prior 57.2) & Services 57.0 (prior 57.0)