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 MANUFACTURING HIT BY STERLING          
                                        
 Pound pressure should start to show    
 through to industrial production       
 figures for December, dui to bj        
 published on Thursday.                 
                                        
 Sterling's strength has hit several big
 firms and the effect on exports could  
 slow the total level of new orders.    
                                        
 Brokers UBS are predicting that        
 December's ovjtall figure will reveal a
 5% year-on-year fall in manufacturing. 
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