Germany’s private sector continued to see strong growth in February, despite the pace of expansion slowing down from the near seven-year high seen during the opening month of the year, according to the latest PMI® survey from IHS Markit. Flash Germany Services PMI Activity Index at 55.3 (57.3 in January), what is a 3-month low. Flash Germany Manufacturing PMI at 60.3 (61.1 in January), what is a 6-month low. While February’s flash PMI figure was down on January’s recent high, it still continued to point to a robust pace of private sector expansion in the eurozone’s largest economy. The performance so far in the first quarter remains better than that seen in final three months of 2017, which saw GDP rise 0.6%.