1.   And manufacturing is showing signs of shifting into a lower gear, after inventories piled up at a rapid clip earlier this year.

2.   As profits have been squeezed and weaker sales have caused inventories to pile up, firms have started to trim their investment and production.

3.   Automakers, steelmakers and other companies that underestimated the impact of the tax increase on sales have seen inventories pile up since, economists said.

4.   Coles Myer Searches for New Chief Troubles for Coles Myer of Australia continue as inventories pile up, profits evaporate and its shares fall.

5.   Computer disk-drive makers fell on concern that inventories could pile up.

6.   Economists say factories reduced production in March because inventories are piling up.

7.   Economists say factories cut back in March because inventories were piling up.

8.   Inventories are piling up on shelves and being written off.

9.   Inventories pile up.

10.   Instead, the mood of manufacturers actually darkened during a period when industrial output fell and inventories piled up.