{"id":16881,"date":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/the-eurozone-manufacturing-sector-deepened-its-decline-in-december-with-the-pmi-falling-to-a-nine-month-low\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"the-eurozone-manufacturing-sector-deepened-its-decline-in-december-with-the-pmi-falling-to-a-nine-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/the-eurozone-manufacturing-sector-deepened-its-decline-in-december-with-the-pmi-falling-to-a-nine-month-low\/","title":{"rendered":"The eurozone manufacturing sector deepened its decline in December, with the PMI falling to a nine-month low."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Manufacturing activity in the eurozone continued to contract in December, according to private survey data. By the end of the month, the eurozone\u2019s industrial sector entered a deeper recession: production volumes fell for the first time in ten months amid a continued decline in new orders. The decline in activity was widespread and affected most eurozone countries.<\/p>\n<p>The HCOB Eurozone Manufacturing PMI, calculated by S&amp;P Global, fell to 48.8 points in December from 49.6 points in November. This was the lowest reading in nine months and the second month in a row below the 50-point mark that separates growth from contraction. According to survey results, contraction was recorded in most of the 20 countries in the currency union.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, the eurozone\u2019s largest economy, showed the weakest results, with its PMI falling to a ten-month low. Italy and Spain also returned to contraction. France was a rare positive exception: its industrial index rose to a 42-month high. Outside the eurozone, manufacturing activity in the UK accelerated to its fastest pace in 15 months in December.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing activity in the eurozone continued to contract in December, according to private survey data. By the end of the month, the eurozone\u2019s industrial sector entered a deeper recession: production volumes fell for the first time in ten months amid a continued decline in new orders. The decline in activity was widespread and affected most eurozone countries.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}