{"id":6418,"date":"2019-09-25T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2019-09-26T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:21:55","slug":"west-midlands-economic-monitor-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-september-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Economic Monitor: September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WMEM-Sept-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6422\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WMEM-Sept-19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"526\" \/><\/a>September&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for you to keep up to date with recent developments in the region.<\/p>\n<p>This month posted mixed performance data for the region, with current figures showing a PMI of 47.5, whilst ONS data showed the West Midlands grew faster than any other region in the country except London in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest edition of the monitor by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/09\/WMEM-2019-09_c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>The West Midlands Economic Monitor was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benabrittain?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Brittain<\/a>, Policy and Data Analyst, City-REDI,\u00a0 University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nThe opinions presented here belong to the author rather than the University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To sign up for our blog mailing list, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cityredi@contacts.bham.ac.uk?Subject=City-REDI%20Blog%20Mailing%20List\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September&#8217;s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for you to keep up to date with recent developments in the region. This month posted mixed performance data for the region, with current figures showing a PMI of 47.5, whilst ONS data showed the West Midlands grew faster than any other region in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/west-midlands-economic-monitor-september-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;West Midlands Economic Monitor: September 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,8,85,6,106,13,308,19,80,267],"tags":[501,500,486,502,111,322],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cities","category-city-redi-publications","category-economics","category-geography","category-government","category-health","category-policy","category-politics","category-regions","tag-cancer","tag-midlands-engine-rail","tag-pmi-data","tag-rental-prices","tag-west-midlands","tag-west-midlands-economic-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}