<a href=’http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-03/03/c_134031416.htm’ target=’_blank’>British manufacturing PMI rises to 9-month high, inflation increases</a>

The British manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI), a gauge of industry activity, edged up to 54.1 in February 2015 from the revised 53.0 in January 2015, registering a nine-month high of the reading, said Markit Economics Limited Monday.