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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Economic bellwether FedEx blames poor Q1 on darkening outlook for manufacturers

Raj Subramaniam, chief executive officer of FedEx, during the Business 20 (B-20) Summit in New Delhi last year. (Credit: Prakash Singh—Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The heated debate over whether the Federal Reserve took too long before responding to signs of a softening economy just saw more fuel added to the fire.

On Thursday, FedEx shocked investors by missing quarterly expectations across the board and issuing more cautious guidance, blaming a pullback by manufacturing customers no longer willing to pay top dollar for priority shipping. 

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