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Mining weakness and General Motors strike weigh on output
The technology helps manufacturers customise items but economies of scale are hard to overcome
Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets
WTO cuts trade forecast as industrial sentiment sours around the world on tariff fears
Global trade ’most significant issue’ as factory activity contracts for second month
Britax’s dilemma illustrates the unintended consequences of Chinese tariffs
Optimistic figures come as Fed starts two-day monetary policy meeting
United Auto Workers demands carmaker ‘recognise the contributions’ employees have made
Factories’ gloom poses headwind for world economy, ramping up pressure for stimulus
Stocks fall after data show how US-China trade war has created ‘an undercurrent of fear and alarm’
Report shows weaker manufacturing and mining output
Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
Slowing industrial production could portend a wider economic contraction
Threat of a no-deal exit and reversal of earlier stockpiling leave industry struggling
Richard Waters talks to Joseph DeSimone about a technology that crafts objects in seconds using the power of light
Key gauge of manufacturing activity sees strongest increase since last summer
Overall industrial production flat as utilities output drops
Report could signal beginning of stabilisation in factory sector
Activity survey hits lowest since 2012 as slowdown spreads across Europe and Asia
Offshoring jobs makes less sense when technology can help speed products to local markets
Shift comes despite threat of more US tariffs on Chinese electronics imports
