US manufacturing contraction easing; ISM PMI up in December

03 January 2025

 

Summary: ISM manufacturing PMI up in December, above expectations; ISM: US manufacturing contracts for past nine consecutive months; short-term US Treasury yields decline, longer-term yields rise; expectations of Fed rate cuts soften; ISM: reading corresponds to 1.9% US GDP growth annualised. The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) reached a cyclical peak in September 2017. It then started a downtrend which ended in March 2020 with...

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