JOHANNESBURG, April 11 (Reuters) – South Africa’s
manufacturing output grew by 4.1 percent year-on-year in volume
terms in February, above forecasts, from a revised 2.3 percent
in January, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
Economists in a Reuters survey expected factory output to
grow by 2.0 percent year-on-year in February.
On a month-on-month basis, production in volume terms grew
by a seasonally adjusted 2.8 percent. It expanded 1.6 percent in
the three months to February compared with the previous three
months.
(Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Xola Potelwa)
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