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The increase in gross direct premiums in the Indian non-life insurance sector continued into the new financial year 2018-19, with a 13.8% annual surge in April. In absolute terms, the premiums for the month amounted to 138.8bn INR compared to 122bn INR in April 2017. More notably, private firms’ premiums were prevalent over public companies’ (67bn to 65bn INR) which historically has rarely been the case. Premiums from private insurers also recorded higher annual growth than their public counterparts – 15% to 11.8%.
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China's manufacturing PMI edged down 0.1 ppt to 51.4% in April 2018. Although April manufacturing PMI was slightly below the average level of 2017 (51.6%), it was higher than the 1Q 2018 average (51%) and April 2017 (51.2%). Against this backdrop, manufacturing PMI remains in expansionary territory for 21 consecutive months.
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