This is a composite of the ISM Manufacturing and Non Manufacturing New Orders indexes (not the ISM Composite). I have backed out the seasonal adjustment hocus pocus and weighted the index according to the relative weighting of manufacturing and service…
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Consumer Metrics Institute: Deeper Historic Lows
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
May 20, 2011
Last week we saw evidence of slowing consumption in the Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report for April from the Census Bureau (see my analysis here). This morning, I’ve updated my Consumer Metrics Institute (CMI) charts through the late…
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Consumer Metrics Institute: New Historic Lows
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
May 9, 2011
On Thursday of this week, we’ll get the Advance Monthly Retail Trade Report for April from the Census Bureau. Shortly thereafter I’ll post my revised retail sales charts. Meanwhile, I’ve updated my Consumer Metrics Institute (CMI) chart…
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Don’t Fight the ISM?
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
I just love correlation charts. Unlike the useless, biased spin fed to us from Wall Street’s market strategoists and egonomists, the charts are just the facts, M’am, just the facts, and you can see them for yourselves. I ran these ISM charts back to 1948 when the ISM, formerly the NAPalM, began this survey. Historically,…
