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Weak Non-Manufacturing ISM Overshadowed by Payrolls and Unemployment

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 10:45 am

Today's big news on top of a record for the DJIA and S&P 500 was the drop in unemployment to 7.5% and the better-than-expected payrolls of 165,000. Now we have ...
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ISM Sees U.S. Escaping Recession in 2013, Growth to Continue

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 11:55 am

The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) is out with a preliminary report, which calls for the United States not to fall into recession. Today's report is on the heels of a ...
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Chicago PMI Contracts: Weak ISM and Payrolls Next?

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 10:05 am

The Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for the month of April came out as recessionary, or in contraction. This is yet another regional economic report confirming that weakness is ruling the roost. ...
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Weak ISM Non-manufacturing Confirms Weak Manufacturing Report Ahead of Earnings Season

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 10:20 am

Wednesday brought about the report from the Institute for Supply Management in the non-manufacturing sector. The ISM non-manufacturing figure for March came in 54.4%. Unfortunately that is shy of the ...
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ISM Non-manufacturing Index Shows Steady Gains in December

Posted: January 4, 2013 at 10:24 am

The services sector is improving. Today's report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) for December rose to 56.1%. Bloomberg was calling for 54.5% and Dow Jones was looking for ...
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Chicago Purchasing Managers Back to Growth in November

Posted: November 30, 2012 at 10:13 am

Friday's reading from the Chicago Purchasing Managers managed to get back above the breakeven line into positive territory. The adjusted index rose to 50.4 in November, versus 49.9 in October. ...
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New York ISM Looks Recessionary

Posted: November 6, 2012 at 10:03 am

The Institute for Supply Management is out with a delayed "Report on Business" for the New York region. Hurricane issues in New York delayed the report from last week, and ...
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ISM Nonmanufacturing Shows Lower Growth for October

Posted: November 5, 2012 at 10:12 am

Today's key economic report was the Institute for Supply Management Nonmanufacturing Index from October. The ISM gave a reading of 54.2%, and that is still in the growth area above ...
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ISM Shows Higher Prices, Slower Employment Growth

Posted: October 3, 2012 at 10:26 am

The Institute for Supply Management, or the ISM, managed to show that the nonmanufacturing sector posted its 33rd consecutive month of growth. The ISM's Report on Business showed a reading ...
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ISM-New York Signals That Employment Is Holding Up

Posted: October 2, 2012 at 10:01 am

We have seen some additional data ahead of Friday's key employment report, although we would note that this is only a small snapshot that is likely not large enough to ...
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ISM Shows Second Month of Contraction

Posted: August 1, 2012 at 10:17 am

We have another contraction from the Institute for Supply Management. The ISM reported that July's manufacturing PMI came in at 49.8, versus a Bloomberg consensus target of 50.2 for the ...
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Non-manufacturing ISM Report Chills Stocks

Posted: July 5, 2012 at 11:40 am

This morning’s report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) on non-manufacturing PMI showed that the US services sectors is growing at its slowest pace in two and a half ...
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ISM Recession Watch: Weakest In Three Years

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 10:14 am

Is a U.S. recession on the way?  If the Institute for Supply Management's Report on Business in manufacturing is any key, we are very close.  The PMI (purchasing managers index) ...
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Chicago Puchasing Managers Signals Recession Bias

Posted: May 31, 2012 at 10:32 am

For a Purchasing Managers report to be in recession and/or true contraction, the reading needs to be under 50.0.  The May report from the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index came in ...
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ISM Services Economy Shows Slowest Growth This Year

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 10:36 am

The Institute for Supply Management has released its data for April's ISN non-Manufacturing sector and the reading is indicative of weaker and slowing growth.  The overall NMI came in at ...
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