The Markit eurozone Purchasing Managers' Output Index was little changed from October, up to 45.8 from 45.7.
Including services and manufacturing, the eurozone PMI composite output index was at 47.3, up from 46.5 in November.
The output index grew at the fastest rate since March, but the prices index was at its lowest for over a year.
BDO's output index also fell in June, while the wider business optimism index - which includes other sectors as well as manufacturing - also dipped.
The bulk of the strength was in the output and new order index.
With any figure below 50 indicating a drop in output, the Markit index has now posted contractions for six of the past seven months.
Traders were keeping an eye out for Poland's July output and producer price index data, which were due later in the trading session on Wednesday.
The Institute for Supply Management said its index of factory output rose to 52.7 from 50.8 the month before.
As you can see from both the charts manufacturing output (and yes, of course this index is inflation adjusted) has continued to grow over the decades reaching a peak just before the Great Recession and it has slumped since.
The UK's manufacturing sector output continued to grow modestly, according to a key index of business confidence.
Manufacturing output, which has a 75% weight in the index of industrial production, rose 2.7% from a year earlier in January.
Its PMI composite index points to a small decline in national output in the second quarter, according to Markit, which assembles the indices.
Friday's data show manufacturing output, which has a 75% weight in the index of industrial production, rose 2.2% in February from a year earlier.
Italy's FTSE MIB index declined 0.6% after its November industrial output fell more than expected.
China has also seen its share of global scientific output, as measured in scientific publications listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI), double between 2002 and 2008 from 5.2% to 10.6%, placing it second only to the USA in numerical terms.
The index indicated firms were working through backlogs of work to sustain output growth.
An index based on purchasing managers' views about new orders, output, employment and the like fell in November to its lowest level since it was started in 1992.
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The index has been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of output from the production, services and construction sectors combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector.
Gross domestic product may be rising smartly for now, but the future looks gray--in the past few months, Polish output growth has come in below expectations, while the country's purchasing managers index has also been weak over recent months.
The measure for output slowed to 51.3 from 52.0 in December, while the employment index fell to 47.8 from 49, flashing a warning signal that companies are cutting jobs.
Joseph Carson, an economist with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York, has concocted such an index, which considers changes in property prices and share prices, producer input and output prices, along with consumer prices.
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Using that above mentioned circuitry, lightly modified to accommodate RTS output and sufficient power demands, and the addition of a simple python script to translate that fluctuating index into real-time ticks, Ames was able to breath new life into an antiquated piece of Americana.
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Output of India's eight infrastructure industries, which have a total weight of 38% in the index of industrial production, rose 2.9% from a year earlier in March, data showed Tuesday.
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