TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - The manufacturing sector in Japan turned to expansion in September, the latest survey from Nikkei revealed on Friday with a manufacturing PMI score of 50.3.
That beat expectations for 49.2, and it was up from 49.5 in August.
It also moves above the boom-or-bust line of 50 that separates expansion from contraction.
Among the individual components, output, new export orders and employment all expanded, while new orders, backlogs of work, input prices and output prices all contracted.
Copyright RTT News/dpa-AFX