Heads-up reminder – China PMI for release over the weekend

China official manufacturing PMI figures will be released on Saturday, March 1 at 0100 GMT, while markets are closed for the weekend.

• 50.0 is the expected (Bloomberg survey) or 50.1 (Reuters survey)
• prior was 50.5

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The HSBC/Markit PMI follows on Monday (March 3) at 0145 GMT. The “Flash” reading for manufacturing PMI for February came in at a lower than expected 48.3 back on the 20th.