Japan's manufacturing PMI dropped to an 8-month low

Dwindling export orders halt the index from rising.

Japan is stuck in sluggish activity after the Flash Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) dipped to 52.2 from last month's 52.4.

The Flash Manufacturing Output Index also faced its weakest growth in 10 months.

According to a release by Nikkei, the dwindling of export orders and weaker demand from South East Asian markets drove the manufacturing slowdown.

IHS senior economist Paul Smith said, “Nonetheless, the sector continues to add jobs, with employment growth remaining amongst the best since the financial crisis, whilst optimism hit its highest level in five years of data collection.”

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia