{"id":31491,"date":"2018-10-27T14:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31491"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:52:20","slug":"services-growth-in-jan-fastest-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/services-growth-in-jan-fastest-in-three-months\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Services growth in Jan. fastest in three months\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/services-growth-in-jan-fastest-in-three-months\/article22663350.ece\"><b>\u2018Services growth in Jan. fastest in three months\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a survey, The Indian services sector remained in expansion mode in January, registering the fastest rise in activity in three months driven by a renewed increase in new business orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Highlights of the Report:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian service sector continued to expand in January<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, the rate of job creation was the fastest since last September.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The seasonally-adjusted Nikkei Services Business Activity Index rose to 51.7 in January from 50.9 in December<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The index remained above the neutral mark of 50 in January that separates growth from contraction for the second consecutive month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In November, the index stood at 48.5.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though growth rates for activity and employment accelerated since December, it remained weaker than their respective long-run survey averages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The service sector lagged behind when compared to manufacturing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main constraint to business was the Goods and Services Tax (GST)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Services growth in Jan. fastest in three months\u2019 Context: According to a survey, The Indian services sector remained in expansion mode in January, registering the fastest rise in activity in three months driven by a renewed increase in new business orders. Highlights of the Report: The Indian service sector continued to expand in January Also,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/services-growth-in-jan-fastest-in-three-months\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Services growth in Jan. fastest in three months\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704882858},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}