China’s official PMI descent slows

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China’s official September PMI still shows a contracting manufacturing sector but at as slower pace than August at 49.8 versus 49.2.

The month on month numbers for output, new orders, new export orders and backlogs are falling more slowly. The Chinese manufacturing recession is bottoming out for now but I don’t expect a powerful rebound.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.