Industrial output in Slovakia registered a thin decrease of 0.1% year on year in May. It also decreased by 1.4% month on month. The stagnating performance follows fluctuations in the industry in the previous two months –a 6.3% y/y growth in April and a 6.9% y/y slump in March. “Even the growth in the manufacture of motor vehicles and production related to energy could not significantly exceed the decline in the manufacture of metals and also machinery and equipment,” Slovak statisticians highlighted, adding that 8 of the 15 monitored industrial sectors were in decline. The manufacture of basic…