January’s manufacturing PMI data provide some evidence that the slump in industry in Emerging Europe’s most open economies is bottoming out. However, the Czech and Hungarian readings are still consistent with a shallow recession while manufacturing in the region’s two largest economies, Turkey and Russia, is also slowing. Only in Poland are there signs of a broad based pick-up in activity.
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