JOHANNESBURG Feb 9 (Reuters) – Growth in South
Africa’s manufacturing output slowed to 2.4 percent
year-on-year in volume terms in December compared with an
upwardly revised 2.8 percent increase in November, Statistics
South Africa said on Thursday.
Economists in a Reuters survey expected year-on-year output
growth of 2.6 percent in December.
Compared with November, production in volume terms was down
by a seasonally adjusted 1.3 percent but was up 1.0 percent in
the three months to December compared with the previous three
months.
(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; editing by Xola Potelwa)
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