Purchasing managers' activity
fell in August to 49.8 points from the previous 51.9 points in
July, Markit Economics said Monday.
The Purchasing Managers' Index sets 50 as the border
between expansion in the economy and contraction.
The August measure suggests that activity has contracted
after more than a year of expansion and is the latest in a long
string of bad economic news for Italy.
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