The decline in the ISM manufacturing index to a two-and-a-half year low of 48.4 in December, from 49.0, is another sign that the economy lost more momentum at the tail-end of last year. Nearly all the survey-based evidence now points to, at best, a complete stagnation in activity or, more likely, a shallow recession beginning soon.
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