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Manufacturing Shrinkage Surprises Economists

Source: Reuters | Nation | July 3, 2012



Manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years as new orders plummeted, according to one measure of the sector that provided a stark sign of the economic recovery's slowdown.

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