China Manufacturing PMI Misses, Slides To 6 Month Lows

Jon Alternative Media, Blogosphere, Economy

For the 13th month in a row, according to Bloomberg data, China Manufacturing PMI missed expectations. Printing at a 6-month low of 50.0 (against expectations of 50.2), the most notable individual component was the slump in output to a contractionary 49.5 reading for the first time since May. New export orders (umm US decoupling?) also dropped. It seems after last month’s idiocy (take a look at these charts for a good laugh), that Japan’s Manufacturing PMI is also catching down to reality having missed expectations and dropped to 52.1. Chinese and Japanese stocks are tumbling after this data (with Nikkei 225 200 points off US day session closing levels).

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/19/2014.