Global manufacturing growth slows - live updates

All the latest economic and financial news, as China’s factory output falls at its fastest pace in six years and British firms trim workforcesLatest: US factory growth slows sharplyUK manufacturing ‘lacklustre’ as firms cut jobsEurozone factory growth is slowingChinese factory growth contracts again 4.49pm BSTBloomberg’s Joe Wiesenthal has done a nice piece rounding up the good and bad economic news today.On the worrying side, manufacturing growth in the US, China, the eu