U.S. Treasury yields extend their fall, albeit only slightly, while the U.S. dollar trims gains after U.S. ISM business manufacturing PMI data came in below forecasts. The December ISM PMI ...

Bonds Improve Back to Pre-Holiday Levels While there was some relevant econ data today (ISM Manufacturing), it didn't have an obvious impact on the bond market. Nonetheless, volume was back at ...

To say the very least, there are more moving pieces to consider at the moment when it comes to the narrative guiding volatility and momentum in the bond market. Tariff and policy-related headlines ...

U.S. Treasury yields extended their fall, albeit only slightly, after U.S. ISM business manufacturing PMI data came in below forecasts.

The ISM services index has bounced back nicely in January with the headline index at 53.4 versus 50.5 in December. The ISM employment index has now rebounded to 50.5, but this is only indicating very ...

A gauge of U.S. manufacturing stumbled in September to a more than two-year low, moving closer to outright stagnation as orders contracted for the third time in four months. The Institute for Supply ...

Two different sets of surveys of US business conditions are provided by S&P Global (previously IHS Markit) and the ISM. Here we analyse the main differences in the methodologies, which can cause ...

As the ongoing grip of the COVID-19 pandemic remains firm on the current state of manufacturing, it loosened, but only to a point, in May, when compared to April, a month replete with record lows, ...

This morning’s Institute for Supply Management (ISM) data offered more evidence that the industrial portion of the U.S. economy has slowed materially in the past six months. I described this ...

Manufacturing activity suffered a further slowdown last month to a 26-year low, the Institute for Supply Management said on Monday, providing the latest evidence of the deepening US economic turmoil.