What's That Down the Road? A Head? How will 2010 compare with 2009 for the manufacturing sector?

摘要

With apologies to the old Red Skelton bit, this is the question that manufacturers are now asking about 2010. The 2009 recession has been replaced by the 2010 recovery, but thus far it is hard to tell one from another. If this is the year of recovery what will that mean? How will this coming year be judged? Against the miserable performances of 2008 to 2009 or by the boom years that preceded them? In some respects, both will serve as reference points.