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U.S. manufacturing, construction reports show a summer slide

Posted: September 5, 2012 at 6:05 a.m.

U.S. manufacturing shrank for a third month in August in the longest decline since the recession ended in 2009, threatening to deprive the world’s largest economy of a driver of growth.

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