The surprise increase in the construction PMI is little cause for optimism given it was driven by the reversal of an idiosyncratic fall in civil engineering activity a month earlier. Indeed, the commercial activity balance slipped below 50 for the first time since January 2021 and new orders stopped rising for the first time since the height of the pandemic.
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