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Is the manufacturing sector signalling recession?

While the risks of a more severe downturn in industry have increased in advanced economies, we still expect manufacturing output to slow rather than crash in the coming months. Even if output were to fall sharply, it wouldn’t necessarily have big implications for the wider economy, meaning that soft landings remain the base case across DMs.

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