China’s manufacturing growth slowed for a second month in January after the central bank raised interest rates and as millions of migrant workers returned to their villages before a Lunar New Year holiday. The Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 52.9 from 53.9 in December, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said in a statement on its website. That was less than the median estimate of 53.5 in a Bloomberg News survey of 13 economists

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