Japan's factory activity shrinks

Updated February 21 2020 - 12:33pm, first published 12:27pm
Japan's factory activity has suffered its steepest contraction in seven years.
Japan's factory activity has suffered its steepest contraction in seven years.

Japan's factory activity has suffered its steepest contraction in seven years in February, as the widening fallout from the coronavirus outbreak in China reinforced the risk of a recession in the world's third-largest economy.

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