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FedEx shares slide as annual forecast cuts stoke worries on economy

(Reuters) -FedEx's shares fell 11% on Friday after the parcel delivery firm cut its annual forecasts, fanning worries about the health of U.S. manufacturing amid uncertainty from the Trump administration's sweeping tariffs on trading partners. CEO Raj Subramaniam warned a day earlier that the company was navigating a very "challenging operating environment" and "weakness in the industrial economy" was weighing on its higher-margin business-to-business volumes. The company's shares hit their lowest in nearly two years on Friday.

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