The latest PMI data suggest that manufacturing activity across the emerging world was steady, but still relatively sluggish, at the end of last year. Manufacturers in some of the non-BRIC EMs, such as Mexico, continued to perform well supported by stronger global demand. But there was further weakness in China and last month’s currency crisis seems to have tipped Russia into recession.
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