ISM-Houston Business Report – February 2020 | (Houston, Texas) – According to Houston area supply chain executives, goods producing industry activity in Houston contracted this month after showing expansion for only one month. Services producing industry activity expanded for the second month. Overall economic activity continues to expand at a moderate pace. Many respondents indicated […]
Continue readingNMI® at 57.3% GDP Growing at 3% Business Activity Index at 57.8% New Orders Index at 63.1% Employment Index at 55.6% (Tempe, Arizona) – Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in February for the 121st consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. Click here […]
Continue readingPMI® at 50.1% GDP Growing at 2.1% Production Growing; New Orders and Employment Contracting Supplier Deliveries Slowing at Faster Rate; Backlog Growing Raw Materials Inventories Contracting; Customers’ Inventories Too Low Prices Decreasing; Exports Growing; and Imports Contracting (Tempe, Arizona) — Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in February, and the overall economy grew for […]
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ISM-Houston Business Report – January 2020| (Houston, Texas) – According to Houston area supply chain executives, goods producing industry activity in Houston expanded this month for the first time since September. Services producing industry activity also returned to expansion after two months reporting contraction. Overall economic activity is now expanding at a moderate pace. The […]
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ISM-Houston Business Report – December 2019 | (Houston, Texas) – According to Houston area supply chain executives, goods producing industry activity in Houston contracted modestly in December. While construction activity improved, it was offset by continued weakness in manufacturing and oil & gas. Services producing industry activity continued to run near neutral. Overall economic activity […]
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ISM-Houston Business Report – November 2019 | (Houston, Texas) – According to Houston supply chain executives, goods producing industry activity in Houston contracted in November for the first time since August of 2017 when Hurricane Harvey impacted local operations. Excluding the slowdown caused by this hurricane, goods producing activity had expanded for 36 months. Construction, […]
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ISM-Houston Report of Business – October 2019 | (Houston, Texas) – According to Houston supply chain executives, goods producing industry activity in Houston expanded in October. Construction, which has reported strong growth all year, boosted the overall result for this industry group. On a stand-alone basis oil & gas and manufacturing, the remaining industries in […]
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ISM-Houston Report of Business – September 2019 | (Houston, Texas) – According to Houston supply chain executives, manufacturing activity in Houston expanded in September for the 25th consecutive month and overall economic activity expanded for the 38th month. The near-term forecast continues to point to overall economic growth. The overall rate of growth is anticipated […]
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August 2019 Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® (Tempe, Arizona) – Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector grew in August for the 115th consecutive month, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. The NMI® registered 56.4 percent, which is 2.7 percentage points higher than the July reading of […]
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August 2019 Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® (Tempe, Arizona) — Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in August, and the overall economy grew for the 124th consecutive month, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM®Report On Business®. The August PMI® registered 49.1 percent, a decrease of 2.1 percentage points from the […]
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