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Will the manufacturing malaise spread to services?

The current global economic slowdown may descend into something more serious if manufacturing drags services down with it. Fortunately, there are reasons to think that the spillovers from the industrial slump will continue to be limited, at least during the rest of 2019. But there are significant risks ahead, and services could of course underperform our expectations for reasons largely unrelated to manufacturing.

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