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Forex Trading ISM Maufacturing Stronger at 50.2
By Forex Bob
Created Jul 1 2008 - 9:05am

Prices paid stronger as well at 91.5.  Inventories up as well.  Employment down.  Imports down and exports down.  The contributors were not the ones that are beneficial (i.e. prices, inventories). 

                                    June   May  April
                                   2008  2008  2008
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Manufacturing index       50.2  49.6  48.6

Prices paid                     91.5  87.0  84.5
Production                      51.5  51.2  49.1
New orders                     49.6  49.7  46.5
Backlog of orders            47.5  46.0  51.5
Supplier deliveries           55.1  53.7  54.0
Inventories                     51.2  48.0  48.1
Customer inventories       55.0  47.0  45.0
Employment                   43.7  45.5  45.4
New export orders           58.5  59.5  57.5
Imports                         46.0  49.5  48.0


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