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CIPS/Markit Construction PMI (Aug.)

Unlike the manufacturing sector, construction activity failed to rebound in August. And within the total, activity in the commercial sector contracted for the second consecutive month. Therefore, it seems as though the economy’s weak start to the year has begun to dampen developers’ views about the outlook for occupier fundamentals.

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