{"id":38679,"date":"2026-07-03T10:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38679"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:22:24","slug":"kenya-private-sector-activity-picks-up-in-june-pmi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-private-sector-activity-picks-up-in-june-pmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya private sector activity picks up in June: PMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Kenya&#8217;s private sector activity picked \u200bup in June, breaking \u200ca run of three previous monthly contractions, a \u200bsurvey showed this \u200bFriday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Stanbic Bank Kenya Purchasing \u2060Managers&#8217; Index (PMI) rose \u200bto 50.0 in June \u200bfrom 46.6 a month earlier. Readings above 50.0 indicate \u200bgrowth in business \u200bactivity, while those below that signal \u200ccontraction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Inflation slowed to 6.4% year on year in June from 6.7% \u200bin May, \u200bdata \u2060from the statistics office showed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Finance \u200bMinistry forecasts the \u200beconomy \u2060will grow 5.0% this year and 5.2% \u2060next \u200byear, from \u200b4.6% last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36722,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-38679","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Inflation slowed to 6.4% year on year in June from 6.7% \u200bin May, \u200bdata \u2060from the statistics office showed.","published_date":"","news_description":"Inflation slowed to 6.4% year on year in June from 6.7% \u200bin May, \u200bdata \u2060from the statistics office showed.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38679","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\/38679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38680,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38679\/revisions\/38680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}