France’s manufacturing output in October this year remained stable month on month, after going down by 0.7 percent in September, according to the statistics released by France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). In the August-October quarter, France’s manufacturing output was down by 0.8 percent year on year and up 0.9 percent quarter on quarter.
In the given month, France’s production in manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment, went down by 0.4 percent compared to September, after increasing by 0.4 percent in the previous month.
On the other hand, in October production of France’s motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers industry decreased by 2.9 percent on month-on-month basis after increasing by 0.5 percent on month-on-month basis in the previous month, while the output of the domestic construction industry grew by 0.1 percent month on month in the given month after going down by 0.3 percent in September compared to August. In the August-October quarter, output of the domestic construction industry went down by 0.5 percent compared to the previous quarter.