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US manufacturing activity in August was hit with the sharpest slowdown in more than two years, according to a widely followed benchmark. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index dropped 3.2 points, to 49.4, on a scale where 50 marks the line between expansion and contraction.
Bloomberg (01 Sep.),