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Whole Economy PMIs (Mar.)

March’s batch of whole economy PMIs showed that efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak have resulted in a sharp decline in activity in the region’s non-oil sectors. Containment measures have escalated since the surveys took place and larger falls in output lie in store. We think that GDP will contract this year at its fastest pace since the 1980s.

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