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©Reuters
Official purchasing managers’ index dips to 50.1 in February
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| Country |
Data |
Estimate |
Actual |
| Eurozone |
PMI (Markit), final |
|
47.9 |
| China |
PMI |
50.5 |
50.1 |
|
PMI (HSBC) |
50.6 |
50.4 |
| Germany |
Retail sales, MoM |
0.9% |
3.1% |
| Italy |
Unemployment |
11.3% |
11.7% |
|
GDP annual |
-2.2% |
|
| US |
Personal spending |
0.2% |
|
|
U Michigan confidence |
76.3 |
|
|
ISM manufacturing |
0.4% |
|
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