The Institute for Supply Management's Purchasing Managers Index fell to 49.1 in August, according to data released this morning. That was below all the forecasts of economists surveyed by Bloomberg. In this survey anything below 50 indicates that a sector is contracting. The contraction in the PMI is the first in three years and marks […]


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