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Brazil & Mexico Manufacturing PMI (May)

May’s manufacturing PMIs from Latin America make for pretty gloomy reading, with the headline indices in both Brazil and Mexico edging down. It’s worth noting that neither series has been a particularly good leading indicator of activity in recent quarters but at the very least there’s not much here to suggest that GDP in either country is on course to bounce back following a soft start to the year.

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