China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) was 51.0 in December, down 0.4 points from November, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics. The December PMI number is 0.2 points higher than the annual average in 2013. It is the fifteenth month that the gauge has stayed above 50. Numbers above 50 indicate economic expansion. […]

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