Economists who had stayed too long at the egg nog and were predicting a rebound in U.S. manufacturing in December got coal in their stockings today (I promise to stop the Christmas references this week) when the Institute for Supply Management’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) fell to 47.2 for December from 48.1 in November. That drop […]


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