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Recent macro-economic data, including the official Index of Eight Core Industries for November and S&P Global’s survey-based Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the manufacturing and services sectors for December, [1] __________  mixed signals on the underlying [2] __________  in the economy. The government’s provisional data show that output across the core industries, [3] __________  coal to electricity, grew by an average of 5.4% year-on-year in November. Double-digit expansions in cement, coal, electricity, and steel [4] __________  the index higher. However, on a sequential basis, contractions in six of the eight sectors, including in the heavyweight sectors of electricity and refinery products, which together [5] __________  almost half the index, kept average core output unchanged.