Manufacturing hit by fresh slump in the euro-zone

April’s manufacturing PMIs suggest that industrial output in most of Emerging Europe contracted last month – mirroring the recent deterioration in the survey data from Germany. More worryingly, the forward looking aspects of the PMI surveys from much of the region also weakened, suggesting that growth in the second quarter of this year is on track to be much weaker than growth in the first quarter.

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