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Weak demand hits factory activity across Asia, Europe

Workers look at machines moving newly made raw bricks at a factory in Huaibei By Sumanta Dey and Wayne Cole BANGALORE/LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dwindling demand hurt factory activity across much of Asia and Europe in September, and mixed manufacturing indicators in the Americas on Wednesday raised the chances of slower global economic growth in the months ahead. China's manufacturing sector barely expanded, while Britain's slumped, and the drop in new orders did not even spare Germany, the strongest member of the euro zone currency bloc, or France, its No. 2 economy. Euro zone factories' final September purchasing managers' index from private data vendor Markit was ...




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