{"id":17403,"date":"2019-01-03T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.miq.com\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:20:35","slug":"december-2018-manufacturing-ism-report-on-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noatumlogistics.com\/us\/december-2018-manufacturing-ism-report-on-business\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2018 Manufacturing ISM\u00ae Report On Business\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org\/about\/MediaRoom\/newsreleasedetail.cfm?ItemNumber=31098&amp;SSO=1\">Institute for Supply Management &#8211; January 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Economic activity in the\u00a0<strong>manufacturing sector<\/strong>\u00a0expanded in December, and the\u00a0<strong>overall economy<\/strong>\u00a0grew for the 116th consecutive month, say the nation\u2019s supply executives in the latest\u00a0<strong>Manufacturing ISM<\/strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><strong>\u00a0Report On Business<\/strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12826 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.miq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ISM-December-2018-Posted-03Jan2019-v2.jpg\" alt=\"ISM December 2018 Graph\" width=\"871\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The report was issued today by Timothy R. Fiore, CPSM, C.P.M., Chair of the Institute for Supply Management<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0(ISM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>) Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: \u201cThe December PMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0registered 54.1 percent, a decrease of 5.2 percentage points from the November reading of 59.3 percent. The New Orders Index registered 51.1 percent, a decrease of 11 percentage points from the November reading of 62.1 percent. The Production Index registered 54.3 percent, 6.3-percentage point decrease compared to the November reading of 60.6 percent. The Employment Index registered 56.2 percent, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points from the November reading of 58.4 percent. The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 57.5 percent, a 5-percentage point decrease from the November reading of 62.5 percent. The Inventories Index registered 51.2 percent, a decrease of 1.7 percentage points from the November reading of 52.9 percent. The Prices Index registered 54.9 percent, a 5.8-percentage point decrease from the November reading of 60.7 percent, indicating higher raw materials prices for the 34th consecutive month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComments from the panel reflect continued expanding business strength, but at much lower levels.\u00a0<strong>Demand<\/strong>\u00a0softened, with the New Orders Index retreating to recent low levels, the Customers\u2019 Inventories Index remaining too low \u2014 a positive heading into the first quarter of 2019 \u2014 and the Backlog of Orders declining to a zero-expansion level.\u00a0<strong>Consumption<\/strong>\u00a0continued to strengthen, with production and employment still expanding, but at much lower levels compared to prior periods.\u00a0<strong>Inputs<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 expressed as supplier deliveries, inventories and imports \u2014 softened as well, with suppliers improving delivery performance, and inventories and imports declining.<\/p>\n<p>Exports continue to expand, but at low levels consistent with November. Price increases relaxed to levels not seen since June 2017, when the index registered 53 percent. The manufacturing community continues to expand, but at much lower levels and at a sharp decline from November,\u201d says Fiore.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 18 manufacturing industries, 11 reported growth in December, in the following order: Textile Mills; Apparel, Leather &amp; Allied Products; Machinery; Transportation Equipment; Computer &amp; Electronic Products; Wood Products; Chemical Products; Food, Beverage &amp; Tobacco Products; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliances &amp; Components; and Primary Metals. The six industries reporting contraction in December \u2014 in the following order \u2014 are: Printing &amp; Related Support Activities; Fabricated Metal Products; Nonmetallic Mineral Products; Petroleum &amp; Coal Products; Paper Products; and Plastics &amp; Rubber Products<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org\/ISMReport\/MfgROB.cfm?navItemNumber=31098&amp;SSO=1\"><strong>here\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>to access the entire release from the Institute for Supply Management website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Institute for Supply Management &#8211; January 3, 2019 Economic activity in the\u00a0manufacturing sector\u00a0expanded in December, and the\u00a0overall economy\u00a0grew for the 116th consecutive month, say the nation\u2019s supply executives in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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