The rise in the ISM manufacturing index to a 20-month high of 54.2 in February, from 53.1, suggests that US producers are undeterred by the fragile recovery in overseas manufacturing activity, for now at least. If the latest softening in the PMIs of Europe and China is sustained then that may put the revival of the US manufacturing sector in jeopardy.
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