Summary: ISM PMI up in August, above expectations; NAB: further increases in index, overall growth expected in months ahead; long-term US Treasury yields noticeably higher; expectations of Fed rate cuts in first half of 2024 firm; ISM: reading corresponds to 0.4% 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...