Reply #13: Internals [View All]

[Frodo]

Employment a bit better than expected from last week's numbers, but still says the same old thing "improving, but not very fast"

Customers Inventories show three month decline.



-----Series-----Direction-----Rate of Change
-----Index------Jan vs Dec---Jan vs Dec

PMI-----------------------63.6------Growing-----Faster
New Orders --------------71.1 ------Growing -----Slower
Production --------------71.1 ------Growing -----Faster
Employment --------------52.9 ------Growing -----Slower
Supplier Deliveries --------60.4 ------Slowing -----Faster
Inventories --------------48.9 ------Contracting -----Slower
Customers' Inventories ------40 ------Too Low -----Slower
Prices -------------------75.5 ------Increasing -----Faster
Backlog of Orders ------60.5 ------Growing -----Slower
New Export Orders ------57.5 ------Growing -----Slower
Imports --------------59.5 ------Growing -----Faster