September’s manufacturing PMI data suggest that the sector has lost some steam across the emerging world. The recent weakness has been largely concentrated in the BRIC economies, although there were further signs of a slowdown in Emerging Asia too. By contrast, manufacturing activity in the smaller, export-orientated EM economies has held up reasonably well.
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