So on this analysis, UK manufacturing and non-financial services are not doing too badly.

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Overall, the UK is not doing too badly compared with neighbouring countries, the authors say.

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Steel production is dropping off in Japan and other Asian countries, but U.S. and European producers aren't doing too badly.

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His counterpart, Jerry Yang , isn't doing too badly either.

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Many Tunisians agree that they are not doing too badly.

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For now, the European economy does not seem to be doing too badly, though Lehman Brothers reckons that every 5% rise in the trade-weighted euro shaves about a quarter of a percentage point off growth and inflation.

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