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ROME, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Growth in Italy’s service sector strengthened in July and cost pressures continued to ease, a survey showed on Wednesday, offering some encouraging signs for the euro zone’s third-largest economy.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 S&P Global’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the service sector rose to 52.5 from June’s 50.2, moving further above the 50 threshold that separates growth from contraction.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 A Reuters survey of 14 analysts had pointed to a reading of 51.3.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 The services PMI had posted three successive sub-50 readings between March and May, following the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran at the end of February.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 The survey’s measure of input cost inflation fell for a second month running in July to 61.2 from 62.1, after a three-and-a-half-year peak of 66.7 in May.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 The employment sub-index rose to 52.7 from 50.4.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 The new business indicator climbed to 53.9 from 51.0, posting its highest reading this year.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 The Italian economy has held up better than many analysts expected in the first half of this year, with gross domestic product rising by 0.3% in the first quarter and 0.2% in the second.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Giorgia Meloni’s government in April forecast full-year 2026 growth of 0.6%, but the budget watchdog UPB on Tuesday issued a significantly more upbeat projection of 0.9%.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 S&P Global’s sister survey for Italy’s smaller manufacturing sector, released on Monday, showed growth slowing in July.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 However, the composite PMI, combining manufacturing and services, rose to 52.5 in July – the highest level since November last year – from 50.8 in June, indicating a fourth consecutive month of expansion.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting By Gavin Jones; Editing by Toby Chopra)<\/p>\n

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