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The Services Index which is a weighted composite index for services data (similar to the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI)) was developed and first published in the January 2008 Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business. This was not available prior to that date because there was insufficient services historical data to develop a composite index.
Manufacturing ended 2013 on an optimistic note, according to an Institute for Supply Management report released today. After November's 2013 record-high-index reading of 57.3%, December's index ...
The ISM survey's forward-looking new orders sub-index fell to 44.6 last month from 47.4 in July. Output declined further, with the production sub-index slipping to 44.8, the lowest level since May ...
The data for the index are collected through a survey of purchasing managers in the manufacturing sector on five different fields, namely, new orders from customers, speed of supplier deliveries, inventories, order backlogs and employment level. Respondents can report either better, same or worse business conditions than previous months. [9]
The nation's factory sector was treading water growth-wise in November and the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index dipped to 56.6 from 56.9 in October -- lower, but still a level ...
The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing purchasing managers index for May fell to 48.7 from 49.2 in April. The factory sector has been under pressure for well over a year, with ISM's ...
The Conference Board's Leading Credit Index, itself a composite index of six financial indicators, e.g. yield spreads and investor sentiment [4] The Institute for Supply Management ’s monthly ISM Index of Manufacturing including: supplier deliveries, imports, production, inventories, new orders, new export orders, order backlogs, prices and ...
Bad news comes in pairs. After a new Markit report put manufacturing growth at a six-month low, a new Institute for Supply Management (ISM) report tells a similar tale. Based on surveys of ...