Latest data released by Markit - 1 March 2019

  • Prior 50.5

The preliminary reading can be found here. Only a mild improvement to initial estimates but more or less similar. The final reading here confirms that manufacturing activity in the region now sits in contraction territory and the print here sits at the lowest since June 2013.

If this carries over into March, it's going to take some real heavy lifting in the services sector to cover for flagging growth in the Eurozone economy during Q1.