Markit: still no improvement in the euro zone

After the initial data that was worse than expected, no improvement occured in the euro zone in February.

The activities of the private enterprises are struggling with the decline in demand and expanded with the lowest pace of the past year. The performance of the manufacturing and service industry companies were both lower than the analysts' expectations – the preliminary data of the Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) of the Markit Economics Economic Research company reveals. (MTI)