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PMIs: Industry struggling but possibly past the worst

The broad-based improvement in the output components of February’s manufacturing PMIs suggests that the worst of the global industrial downturn is already in the rear-view mirror. That said, it is too early to call a durable turnaround in industrial demand, at least outside China where a rapid recovery is underway.

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