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Manufacturing - as bad as the early 1990s

The recent deterioration in activity both at home and overseas has cast a large cloud over the outlook for the manufacturing sector. We now think that manufacturing output will fall from peak to trough by at least 6%, putting this industrial downturn firmly in the same league as that of the early 1990s.

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