That's up from the downwardly revised 47.4 in May (originally 47.5) and it remains beneath the boom-or-bust line of 50 that separates expansion from contraction.
Among the individual components, finished stocks (46.9), deliveries (47.7), production (48.6) and employment (47.9) all were in contraction, while new orders (51.2) expanded.
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