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Seasonality, tax cuts distort the industrial output data

Among the better-than-expected data published this week, industrial output growth stood out as especially strong after it jumped by the most since March 2009. But there are reasons to think that underlying momentum has not improved as dramatically as the headline figure suggests.

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