Monday, March 5, 2012

PMI Reports Come In Ugly Across Europe, As Spain And Italy Start To Tailspin

Joe Weisenthal

This is not helping the market today: PMI Services reports are coming in ugly across the Eurozone.
Markit has a great rundown of the results, which basically go like this.
  • Italy is down to 44.1 vs 44.8 in January, for its 9th straight month sub-50 (indicating contraction).
  • Spain has fallen to 41.9 vs. 46.1 in January. That's a horrible number.
  • French PMI is right on the even line at 50.0 vs. 52.3 in January.
  • Germany is still nicely positive at 52.8, but that's down from 53.7 in the previous month.

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