Conference Board
Chinese and Ezone Flash PMI Surveys Highlight Weakness
April 23, 2013
HSBC reported a 1.1 decline in China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index. At 50.5 in April, the second quarter began with just marginal growth and reversed an encouraging improvement in March. Preliminary readings on the German, French and Ezone composite, manufacturing and service-sector PMI surveys also were released overnight, and they suggest that the region’s downturn […] More
Conference Board Data Moves Markets
June 29, 2010
The global data calendar today was a heavy one. While including several key Japanese end-of month releases, euro area sentiment indices, and the Case-Shiller house price index for 20 metropolitan areas, two indicators compiled by the Conference Board stole the show. The CB has crunched a U.S. index of leading economic indicators for years, which […] More
