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Greek Manufacturing Achieves Highest Expanse in 9 Years

Greek manufacturing activity kept expanding in December as new orders grew at the fastest pace in over nine years, leading firms to increase hiring and production, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Markit’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for manufacturing, which accounts for about 10 percent of the economy, rose to 53.1 from 52.2 in November. It was the seventh straight month of improvement and the sharpest pace of growth since June 2008.
Readings above 50 denote expansions in activity. Rising demand both at home and from abroad drove the sector’s continued expansion.
Manufacturers added workers in December for the eighth consecutive month, which helped them reduce their backlogs of unfinished work. Firms also bought more for the sixth time in as many months and at the sharpest rate in over 10 years.
Greece‘s unemployment rate soared after the country succumbed to a debt crisis from 2009, leading to a prolonged recession and multiple state bailouts. At 21.1% in the second quarter, the rate remains the highest in the eurozone.
Robust demand failed to boost manufacturers’ average selling prices, however, although the pace of input price inflation remained broadly unchanged, suggesting a squeeze on their margins.
Source: Reuters

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