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Euro-Zone Industrial Output Falls

Updated Dec. 12, 2012 7:15 a.m. ET

Industrial production fell in the 17 countries that use the euro in October, suggesting the bloc's economic downturn deepened at the start of the fourth quarter.

Weakness in euro-zone factories was more severe than expected and underscores the prospect that the region's shallow recession in the second and third quarters of 2012 will grow more severe in the fourth quarter. That would pile further pressure on countries such as Greece,...

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