From China's National Bureau of Statistics, the official PMIs for the month
Manufacturing in at a big miss indeed, 49.3
- expected 49.8, prior 49.8
Non-manufacturing 52.8
- expected 53.6, prior 53.7
Composite 52.0
- prior 53.1
For the manufacturing PMI:
- output fell
- new orders fell into contraction
- new export orders fell further into contraction
- the employment sub index in contraction for many, many months
