2012-05-20 — telegraph.co.uk
A survey of manufacturing activity from the Federal Reserve's Philadelphia branch tumbled to -5.8 this month from 8.5 in April, where any reading below zero signals contraction.
Although Thursday's survey only covers Pennsylvania and surrounding states, economists take it as an early reading on America's wider manufacturing industry.
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