HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Chinese manufacturing activity remained stuck in contraction in January, according to
HSBC's Purchasing Managers' Index released Wednesday, putting the survey results at odds with an official Chinese gauge released earlier in the day. The HSBC survey's final print on
China's PMI came in at 48.8, unchanged from a preliminary reading released last month and a little ahead of HSBC's December measure at 48.7. But the PMI reading was still below the threshold of 50, which separates expansion and contraction. The data also differed from a China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing survey, which earlier Wednesday put the country's PMI reading for January at 50.5, rising from December's 50.3 and surprising analysts who had estimated the official gauge to drop to 49.5.Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.
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