The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported this morning that its manufacturing survey rose to 51.5% in September, up 1.9% from August’s reading of 49.6%. The rise is the first in four...
Source: ThinkstockThe 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 we...
The most recent ISM manufacturing report points to even softer conditions for a sector that showed very little life during 2015.
Manufacturing took it on the chin in November. That is at least a part of what the Institute for Supply Management has signaled in its manufacturing report. The headline index reading was 48.6, below...
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Source: ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management is out with its semiannual outlook, and the group sees economic growth continuing in 2013. The December 2012 Semiannual Economic Forecast is...
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 month....
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Tuesday's economic reports brought a mixed view on the manufacturing segment in the United States.
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The August manufacturing data from the Institute for Supply Management is actually positive and above that 50.0 threshold for growth versus contraction.  It is easy to point to some exceptions here,...
This morning came the report from the Institute of Supply Management for non-manufacturing in the month of June.  The good news is that this was slightly better than expectations.  The bad news is...
October marks the third consecutive month that the ISM manufacturing reading flirted with contraction.