Spain's manufacturing sector registered another month of improvement in February as output and new orders logged further solid rises, data from Markit Economics showed Monday.
The seasonally adjusted Markit Purchasing Managers' Index, a composite indicator designed to measure the performance of the manufacturing economy, rose to 52.5 in February from 52.2 in January.
The score signaled a solid growth in business conditions and the strongest since April 2010. A third monthly rise in new orders was recorded in February. Higher new orders led manufacturers to increase their production. Manufacturing firms upped their rate of job creation in February.
"The Spanish manufacturing sector maintained its recent run of growth in February and has posted back-to-back rises in employment for the first time since mid-2007," Andrew Harker, senior economist at Markit and author of the report, said.
Although input prices rose in February following a fall in January, the rate of inflation was only slight and well below the series average. Meanwhile, firms lowered their output prices for the second month running.
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