The drop in August’s manufacturing PMIs from both Brazil and Mexico follows the pattern set in other countries around the globe last month and will feed concerns about a more general downturn in the world economy. It’s striking, however, that in the case of Brazil, the latest fall in the PMI seems to have been caused by domestic rather than external factors.
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