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Projex Survey 99www.projectstoday.comJuly 2025Economic Review 7Similarly, there were stronger improvements in demand for goods and services. Aggregate new business increased at a sharp pace that was the quickest since August 2024. This was supported by a record expansion in international sales.Despite an uptick in job creation among manufacturers, employment growth in the private sector softened. This reflected a slowdown among service providers. Prices charged by private sector companies rose at the slowest pace in three months at the end of the first fiscal quarter. Concurrently, cost burdens increased at the weakest rate since August 2024. For both indicators, slowdowns were broad-based across the manufacturing and service economies.