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LONDON (Reuters) - The downturn in the euro zone's private sector
is becoming entrenched and Chinese factories are finding the going
increasingly tough, business surveys showed on Thursday, painting a
darker outlook for the world economy.

June was the fifth consecutive month that activity
across the euro zone has declined, dragging down heavyweights Germany
and France and putting pressure on the European Central Bank to take further action to support the economy.

"We are at the point where the economy is increasingly
losing traction and it's hard at this stage to see what will give us a
lift. The ECB will do more, that will probably involve a rate cut -
which is symbolic - but is action," said Peter Dixon at Commerzbank.

With economic recovery showing increased fragility in
the United States, the Federal Reserve delivered another round of
monetary stimulus on Wednesday and said it was ready to do even more to
help if the situation in Europe deteriorated.

Data due later from the United States is expected to
show manufacturing growth in the world's largest economy slowed this
month but that there was a slight fall in new claims for unemployment
benefits.

The euro zone's private sector contracted at its
fastest pace since June 2009, when the bloc was mired in a deep
recession, according to Markit's Flash Composite Purchasing Managers'
Index for June.

A combination of the services and manufacturing sectors
which is seen as a guide to growth, the PMI fell to 46.0, slightly
better than the fall to 45.5 predicted by economists in a Reuters Poll.

But the index has been below the 50 mark that divides
growth from contraction in all but one of the last 10 months. The euro fell after the data and European stocks traded lower.

Analysts struggled to find much hope in the numbers.

"The only remotely positive spin that can be put on the
dismal euro zone (PMI) is that there was no further deepening in the
overall rate of contraction. Hardly a cause for celebration," said
Howard Archer at IHS Global Insight.

The data pointed towards a second quarter contraction of around 0.6 percent, Markit said.

Having held steady at the start of the year, the bloc's
economy will contract 0.2 percent in the current quarter and narrowly
escape recession by stagnating again in the next, according to
economists polled by Reuters last week.

Earlier data from Germany, Europe's largest economy, showed its manufacturing sector
contracted at its fastest pace since June 2009, while its service
sector barely expanded, posting its lowest reading in seven months.

In neighboring France activity declined in both sectors, albeit it at a more moderate pace than last month.

"For the time being, and if we cannot sort out the
financial crisis, the euro zone is likely to remain in recession," said
Dominique Barbet at BNP Paribas.

While the euro zone has not actually met the technical
definition of recession by putting in two consecutive quarters of
contraction, many consider growth is so poor that it might as well have.

The danger of Greece crashing out of the euro zone
eased after pro-bailout parties won weekend elections, but risks are
mounting that Spain, the euro zone's fourth-largest economy, will need a
full-blown international rescue.

The two-and-a-half year old crisis has hobbled the
global economy, and world leaders meeting in Mexico piled pressure on
the euro zone to move towards a fiscal and banking union to fix the
crisis that now threatens to engulf Spain.

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China's factory sector shrank for an eighth straight
month in June as export orders sentiment hit its weakest level since
early 2009, indicating the country's economic trough may extend well
into the third quarter.

The HSBC Flash Purchasing Managers Index, the earliest
monthly indicator of China's industrial activity, fell to a seven-month
low of 48.1 in June from 48.4 in May.

It marked the eighth consecutive month that the HSBC
PMI has been below 50, matching a similar streak during the much deeper
slowdown during the global financial crisis of 2008/2009.

Economic growth in the world's most populous nation is
widely expected to have slid for the sixth straight quarter in April
through June as the country feels the impact of the euro area debt
crisis and property controls weigh on domestic demand.

Connie Tse, an economist at Forecast Ltd in Singapore,
said she sees an "increasing chance" that second-quarter annual growth
will edge close to 7 percent, which would be the weakest pace of
expansion since early 2009 but way ahead of its European counterparts.

As recently as May, a Reuters poll had a median forecast of 7.9 percent for the second quarter.

"Conditions of China's manufacturing sector, especially
the small and medium sized factories, continued to slip. We see little
probability of this series moving back into the expansion zone in the
next two months," said Yao Wei at Societe Generale.