Markets dive as China manufacturing weakens in bleak start to 2019
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China’s huge manufacturing sector has shrunk for the first time in 19 months, sending stock markets into a tailspin in an ominous start to 2019.
The weak data follows a slew of other disappointing figures from the world’s second largest economy and underline concerns that is heading for a tough 12 months.