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In May 2024, manufacturing production is down sharply (-2.7%)
In May 2024, production is down sharply over one month in the manufacturing industry (-2.7% after +0.5% in April 2024) as in industry as a whole (-2.1% after +0.6%). In May 2024, production fell in the manufacture of "other industrial products" (-3.5% after +0.9%) and in that of capital goods (-4.6% after +2.8%). It fell again in the agri-food industries (-0.6% after -0.7%) and the manufacture of transport equipment (-0.7% after -2.4%): in detail, it fell sharply for the automobile industry (-6.6% after +1.3%) but rebounded in other transport equipment (+3.3% after -4.8%). Conversely, it increased again in the ... (full story)