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Is the US heading for a recession?

Most analysts believe the world’s largest economy will still achieve a soft landing, with inflation falling back to 2 per cent goal without a sharp rise in unemployment.

Claire Jones, Delphine Strauss and Martha Muir

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London/Washington | Jittery investors have overplayed the threat of a US recession, economists say, but years of bumper growth are over as the world’s largest economy heads for a slowdown.

The global sell-off in equities that began on Friday and ran into this week was triggered by concerns over the health of the US economy, including a weaker than expected jobs report.

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