China's economic slowdown impacting on European manufacturers. - Healthy performances by European manufacturers during the first quarter of 2015 (see above) have, nonetheless, been dampened by the economic slowdown in China, the leading global market where 23.5 million vehicles were sold in 2014. Together with the energy sector, the automobile sector has in effect been the most overexposed sector in China and manufacturers there achieved 11% of their sales. Over the first seven months of the...