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Shadows over 2019 lift

We expect the global economy to slow further next year which will be a headwind to trade. But the government has recognised the threat to domestic demand posed by next year’s sales tax hike and announced a number of measures to dampen the blow. The upshot is that the economic outlook has brightened.

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