ISM PMI steady in November, at contractionary levels

01 December 2023

 

ISM PMI steady in November, below expectations; US Treasury yields fall heavily; expectations of Fed rate cuts in 2024 harden; ISM: reading corresponds to 0.7% US GDP contraction 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 a contraction in US manufacturing which lasted until June 2020. Subsequent month’s...

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