UK services sector sees fastest growth since July 2015 - PMI

By David and Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy finished 2016 strongly, growing at the fastest rate since mid-2015, even though companies faced some of the fastest-rising costs of the past five years as sterling weakened after Britain voted to leave the European Union, an industry survey showed. The Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the services sector rose to a 17-month high of 56.2 in December, beating all forecasts in a Reuters poll of economists and rising a full po