Production in China is growing again – that’s the key point from the flash PMI figure out on Monday, which showed the strongest reading in 5 months.
It may only be the preliminary figure – the HSBC flash number often contradicts the official PMI reading – but it helped push Asian markets higher, and put a couple of them back in the green for 2011.
The headline PMI number, at 51.1, follows three months of sub-50 readings – i.e. three months of contracting production. New export orders climbed – suggesting a pickup in global demand.
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