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Slump in investment could worsen in the second half

The 2015 investment intentions survey suggests that real private and public investment will fall more sharply than most people realise this year. This is the strongest indication so far that, what might seem like only the mildest of recessions now, is in fact only the beginning of a far more serious upheaval in the economy.

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