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ROB Roundup: November PMI® After the Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® indicated softening growth in September and October, there were concerns that the U.S. manufacturing sector

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ROB Roundup: November NMI® The release of the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® had no chance of being the biggest economic news on Thursday, not with the Dow Jones Industrial

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How to Take Advantage of the Trade Truce The 90-day trade truce agreed upon by President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers

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ROB Roundup: January NMI® In the financial world, the Non-Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® on Tuesday was labeled “disappointing” — the NMI® of 56.7 percent fell short of

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How to Enhance Your ROB Dashboard’s Effectiveness You’ve created your dashboard to track the ISM® Report On Business®, released monthly by Institute for Supply Management®, and other

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ROB Roundup: March PMI® An inverted yield curve. Soft housing starts. Weak retail sales. In recent days, each new piece of recent U.S. economic data seemed to further stoke fears of a slowdown,

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#ISM2019: Texas-Sized Twitter In a city synonymous with space exploration, ISM2019 Annual Conference attendees in Houston had no problem compiling enough succinct and clever tweets to reach the

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ROB Roundup: February PMI® The Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business® was released on Friday, and the composite PMI® of 54.1 percent was below analysts’ expectations and represented

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Brexit’s Impact on the Global Supply Chain By Chris Laws There are two ways that the United Kingdom’s (U.K.) exit from the European Union (EU) can unfold. A hard Brexit describes a worst-case

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The Monthly Metric: ROB Inventories Subindexes This month’s measurement is ground that The Monthly Metric has wanted to cover for some time: the ISM® Report On Business®. Each month, Institute

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