Is it possible that manufacturing data in the US is running counter to the rest of the world's major economies, and it is in the US that we are seeing positive data? Well, manufacturing activity is down in China. And it is down in Europe and much of Asia as well. In this Wall Street Journal video, Dow Jones editors Nick Hastings and Martin Essex discuss the potential impact the bad manufacturing data will have on the global economy:
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