Comments from survey head Bradley Holcomb

  • Panel sees export orders growing in 2017

  • Deliveries are delayed amid more capital equipment orders

  • Consumer confidence aided factories in the second half of 2016

  • Hiring and available labour was tight in late 2016

  • The price jump is something to watch after the Dec jump

Usually the ISM bods would be waxing lyrical about a report as good as this.