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Manufacturing in Nov up more than expected

US producers are powering ahead even as their global competitors take a beating
Tue, Dec 02, 2014 - 5:50 AM

Washington

MANUFACTURING in the US expanded in November at a faster pace than projected, signalling that the world's largest economy is rising above a global slowdown.

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