{"id":20381,"date":"2025-12-03T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-private-sector-activity-surges-to-five-year-high-pmi-survey-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:42","slug":"kenya-private-sector-activity-surges-to-five-year-high-pmi-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-private-sector-activity-surges-to-five-year-high-pmi-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya private sector activity surges to five-year high, PMI survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Kenya&#8217;s private sector activity expanded for the third consecutive month in November to stand at a five-year high, boosted by better performance across all sectors, a survey showed on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Stanbic Bank Kenya Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index\u00a0 (PMI) rose to 55.0 in November from 52.5 a month earlier.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Readings above 50.0 indicate growth in business activity, while those below that signal contraction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>November&#8217;s figure is the highest since October 2020, the survey showed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The uplift in business activity was also one of the sharpest recorded in the survey history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Survey panellists attributed the steep increase in output to stronger market demand,&#8221; Stanbic Bank said in comments accompanying the survey.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14567,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-20381","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Kenya's private sector activity expanded for the third consecutive month","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24440,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20381\/revisions\/24440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}