The defining feature of 2019 was weakening global activity, with consensus growth forecasts being repeatedly downgraded. This was driven by the drop in fixed investment linked to trade policy uncertainty, the large reductions in inventories in the advanced economies in the second half of 2019, the decline in IT production in Asia, the struggles of the German auto industry, and the drop in infrastructure spending caused by the tightening of credit

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