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Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, this table shows manufacturing activity (as measured by the ISM’s Purchasing Managers Index) around the world. Only China and the Czech Republic are showing positive improvement. Three countries are contracting, but doing so a little bit slower than last month, and everyone else is just plain doing worse. Not good news.
