Service sector output growth was unrevised at 0.6 per cent.

Association is understood to be seeking a cap of 10 per cent on crude steel output growth this year to stabilise prices.

Yet rising employment ought to have brought with it higher output growth and higher incomes.

The second quarter will probably represent the high point of quarterly manufacturing output growth.

Each country's fiscal stimulus can be twice as effective in raising domestic output growth if its major trading partners also have a stimulus package.