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The Economy Ministry's statement Tuesday said that industrial orders data "currently show no clear trend." It added that overall second-quarter figures were slightly above those for the first quarter, with foreign demand pulling orders higher. All the same, recent business surveys "uniformly signal a renewed weakening in overall order activity" at the beginning of the year's second half, said Alexander Koch, an economist at UniCredit in Munich.
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