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What’s holding back investment?

The drop back in machinery orders in April is not the disaster that the headlines suggest, but hopes of a rapid turnaround in investment are clearly premature. The main headwind is the large amount of spare capacity already available – something that “Abenomics” cannot be expected to trump overnight.

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