LONDON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Euro zone manufacturing activity slipped back into contraction in September as new orders fell at their fastest rate in six months, signaling the recovery in the region's industrial sector was fragile, a survey showed on Wednesday. The HCOB Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, fell to 49.8 in September from 50.7 in August – which was the first reading about the 50.0-point line denoting growth since mid-2022. "For the seventh month in a row, production in the euro zone has ticked upwards compared to the previous month, but progress has been sluggish," said Cyrus de la Rubia, chief economist at Hamburg Commercial Bank. However, incoming orders declined in September after a short-lived increase in August, with export market

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