Partner Center The ISM Manufacturing PMI slipped just 0.2 points to 52.4 in February, but it still topped the 51.8 forecast and stayed firmly in expansion territory. That makes it two straight months above 50, and only the third time in the past 40 months that manufacturing has managed to hold that

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