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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 ...

The ISM version of the services PMI for the U.S. shows that the sector is still expanding. This, seriously, just ain't so. From which we can gather two things. Firstly, most reported statistics around ...

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A fierce debate has broken out among macro analysts over the credibility of the ISM Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). Experts say this key economic metric is being overused to predict ...

With a proclaimed socialist, and some claiming the individual is actually a communist, running in the New York City mayoral race, a renewed debate about the three “isms” of socialism, communism and ...