France: manufacturing production stable in May

Over the past three months, output diminished in the manufacturing industry (-0.9% q-o-q), and to a lesser extent in the overall industry (-0.3%).

Output decreased in "other manufacturing" (-1.3%), in the manufacture of food products and beverages (-1.5%), in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (-1.3%). It tumbled in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (-5.0%). Conversely, output rose sharply in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply (+3.7%) and in the manufacture of transport equipment (+2.9%).

Over the year, manufacturing output increased by +0.3%

Manufacturing output of the past three months of 2016 increased slightly compared to the same months of 2015 (+0.3%, y-o-y); so did overall industrial output (+0.5% y-o-y).

Over the year, manufacturing output soared in the manufacture of transport equipment (+7.4%), and rose more moderately in mining and quarrying; energy; water supply (+1.6%). Conversely, it shrank in the manufacture of food products and beverages (-1.9%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (-1.4%), and plummeted in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (-10.8%). Finally, it was stable in "other manufacturing".