Details from the February 2017 US ISM manufacturing PMI data report 1 March 2017

  • Prior 56.0

  • New orders 65.1 vs 60.4 prior
  • Employment 54.2 vs 55.9 exp. Prior 56.1
  • Prices paid 68 vs 68.0 exp. Prior 69.0

Slowly but surely US manufacturing is getting itself back into a good position. That beats the high last seen in Nov 2014.

We'll have to wait for the bumf as the ISM site is on go slow. We'll, for some reason the ISM want to keep the detailed report a secret and I can't be arsed to hang around for it. Maybe it will be up when the survey director pops up with tis press call.

US ISM manufacturing PMI