News-driven FX Trading: How to Trade Events Like the FOMC, CPI, and NFP ISM Services PMI decreased from 50.8 to 50.1. New Orders Index declined from 51.3 to 50.3. Employment Index pulled back from ...

ISM Services is right at 50 for September, but ISM Business Activity is below 50, which last time happened in May 2020. More services industries are showing contraction, and the ISM Services ...

March’s ISM Manufacturing PMI fell to 49, signaling a contraction after two months of growth and raising concerns about potential stagflation due to slowing activity and rising prices. Tim Fiore, ...

Two different sets of surveys of US business conditions are provided by S&P Global (previously IHS Markit) and the ISM. Here we analyse the main differences in the methodologies, which can cause ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two recent notes emphasise that the impressive recent ISM manufacturing readings in the US are probably as much ...

After 26 months of the Institute of Supply Management’s Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) holding below 50% (any number below 50% indicates contraction), the PMI number for January 2025 sat at 55.1%.

In the world today, everyone possesses or is possessed by an "Ism." An Ism has various definitions. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is defined as "doctrine-theory-religion; prejudice ...