JOHANNESBURG, March 8 (Reuters) – South Africa’s
manufacturing output grew 2.4 percent year-on-year in volume
terms in January, unchanged from December, Statistics South
Africa said on Thursday.
Economists in a Reuters survey expected year-on-year output
to nudge up by 2.5 percent.
On a month-on-month basis, production in volume terms grew
by a seasonally adjusted 1.7 percent. It expanded 0.4 percent in
the three months to January compared with the previous three
months.
(Reporting by Xola Potelwa; Editing by Ed Cropley)
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