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EM manufacturing: a better Q2 but weakness ahead

The manufacturing PMIs for May suggest that EM industry has, in aggregate, strengthened in Q2. Nonetheless, with the surveys pointing to further weakness in key DM trading partners, EM industry is likely to struggle in the second half of this year.

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