The outlook for the global economy darkened as a stream of data from Europe and Asia suggested growth faltered in the third quarter
, hobbled by, sharply accelerating inflation and the impact of the highly contagious Delta variant.
From Sweden and the U.K. to Germany and Japan, jammed-up ports and bottlenecks in the global flow of raw materials and components have rocked manufacturers, causing factories to halt production and executives to warn customers they will have to wait for urgently needed goods.
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