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How gloomy should we be about investment?

The past few weeks have brought yet more relatively upbeat economic news and the first estimate of investment in Q3 was no exception. But we wouldn’t read too much into a single set of figures. And economists’ forecasts for investment growth in 2017 – which range from -6% to +5% – highlight just how uncertain the outlook for investment is at present.

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