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Manufacturing ISM Misses, Third Month In Contraction Territory; Biggest Miss In Construction Spending In One Year
So much for the transitory bounce in positive economic reports from August. While hopes were high that maybe, just maybe, the virtuous cycle has once again been restored and the Fed's intervention would be unneeded, the August Manufacturing ISM just printed at 49.6, down from July's 49.8, and well below expectations of 50. This was the third contraction in a row, and fourth sequential miss to expectations, and joins the global PMI which as we reported yesterday now has 80% of the world in contractionary territory. The kicker was the Prices Paid category which soared to 54.0 from 39.5, a whopping 14.5 surge, which together with the always hollow Inventories category which rose from 49.0 to 53.0, and Employment, which dipped from 52.0 to 51.6, were the only categories in the 50+ region. Everything else is now contracting.
Big miss in construction spending...
And in other news, Construction spending (remember "housing has bottomed") plunged from 0.4% to -0.9%, on expectations of an unchanged print, which was the biggest miss in a year, and the biggest drop in also a year.
The last two months have seen inventories rise their largest in 27 months!!
and Prices Paid jumped notably - beating expectations by the most in 18 months...
From the report:
The report was issued today by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management™ Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. "The PMI™ registered 49.6 percent, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from July's reading of 49.8 percent, indicating contraction in the manufacturing sector for the third consecutive month. This is also the lowest reading for the PMI™ since July 2009. The New Orders Index registered 47.1 percent, a decrease of 0.9 percentage point from July, indicating contraction in new orders for the third consecutive month. The Production Index registered 47.2 percent, a decrease of 4.1 percentage points and indicating contraction in production for the first time since May 2009. The Employment Index remained in growth territory at 51.6 percent, but registered its lowest reading since November 2009 when the Employment Index registered 51 percent. The Prices Index increased 14.5 percentage points from its July reading to 54 percent. Comments from the panel generally reflect a slowdown in orders and demand, with continuing concern over the uncertain state of global economies."
PERFORMANCE BY INDUSTRY
Of the 18 manufacturing industries, eight are reporting growth in August in the following order: Printing & Related Support Activities; Primary Metals; Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products; Petroleum & Coal Products; Apparel, Leather & Allied Products; Paper Products; Chemical Products; and Miscellaneous Manufacturing. The eight industries reporting contraction in August — listed in order — are: Textile Mills; Nonmetallic Mineral Products; Furniture & Related Products; Computer & Electronic Products; Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components; Transportation Equipment; Fabricated Metal Products; and Machinery.
Finally, per John Lohman, the Orders less Inventory leading indicator confirms much more pain is coming:
The always informative respondents are bearish to quite bearish across the board:
- "Internal indicators and feedback from sales channels are indicating a slowdown in demand for capital equipment." (Machinery)
- "Business continues to be very solid, but there is now a slowing of incoming orders." (Fabricated Metal Products)
- "Incoming orders have slowed somewhat, but indications are that there will be a stronger fourth quarter." (Plastics & Rubber Products)
- "Business is slow right now. Companies seem to be holding onto their money." (Computer & Electronic Products)
- "We can sense, feel and see headwinds with customer orders, especially Europe related." (Apparel, Leather & Allied Products)
- "New orders and backlog remain flat." (Miscellaneous Manufacturing)
- "Auto industry slowing a bit in the second half [of the year]." (Transportation Equipment)
- "U.S. drought severely impacting raw materials prices." (Food, Beverage & Tobacco Products)
- "Lackluster demand continues in all regions of the world, and is supporting much lower raw materials prices in the second half of 2012." (Chemical Products)
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jISM bitchez!
Missed it. By jiiiiiiiiiiist much.
Here comes 13000 boys and girls.
Pick a number......any number.
By the way, WTF is manufacturing? I remember that name from some time long ago.....
It's when you actually build crap....you know.....like China does.
Or when you manufacture numbers...you know...like the BLS does.
yeah unemployment weak housing not to worry nothing a little or a lot of QE can't solve. fucking joke.
Quite right, QE is manufacturing now
it's so easy this economics thing, we never needed an industrial revolution, we should have just made lots of paper money in our caves like the Fed
why won't the Fed let us all have printers then?
Welcome back to work and welcome back to reality! Gold Bitchez!
$1700 bitches
When Benny dont print, you dont want to be a short term holder...... Long term cool -- Short term look for $1600 before $1725.....
WRONG
Gawd, I wish I had $1600 to spare, this living hand to mouth is killing me.
WRONG!
But, but, but CNBC LiesMan and Cramer said all is well because Bernanke will print.
16 Jun 2009 - Cramer: Housing Has Officially Bottomed
10 Jan 2012 - Cramer: Housing Has Bottomed
Third time lucky, Jimbo ;o)
Old WS saying.." Those who pick bottoms only get stinky fingers"
fleecman still wiping the dried jizz from his face from bernake
The hell of it is, most of the data just released will be "revised" in a week or two and will actually be even worse. SOP. But the algos are likely to BTFD, so we'll probably be green by the end of the day. Rally on!
brick by brick the empire is being dismantled by paper pushing fucknuts...
"fucknuts", please, give credit where credit is due.
20 min From now buying will commence and we'll see a long upward sloping green line... By 2pm indexes will be positive...
I am short and hoping for the opposite...
20 minutes from now smart money will have had a 19 minute head start.
And the smarter money thinks in terms of microseconds.
But the smartest money of all is nowhere near the casino.
pods
And the moon is made of green cheese
The very fact that you are playing their game speaks volumes about your IQ
Your comment speaks even more about your IQ.
now_here_man :> he didn't say he was playing this game
he may be simply writing about it
you may have more intel about his activities around what he is writing about
give us a link to a comment where he says he actually trades this for example...
even so, you may be right or right and wrong (even people who test well make mistakes, do they not?) but at least you would have scored a point in mjy book
But housing is up 3.8% year over year.
Stocks seem unimpressed...we need a rumor to tighten this puppy up stat!!!
Rumor: Stalin and Ava Braun had a secret love child and its name is Janet Napolitano...discuss amoungst yourselves.
<fap>
"we need a rumor to tighten this puppy up stat!"
No doubt Reuters and Bloomberg will come up with some headlines to feed the algos. DOW down 75 points now. I doubt it'll be down that much by 4pm. More likely to be green from an overdose of Fed Hopium.
Manufacturing ISM Misses. Is this good for the new Economy, or is it bad?
Bad figures => QE => bullish
Good figures => better economy => bullish
ECB buys bonds => Europe is saved => bullish
Spain bank run => Spain requests bailout => bullish
Gee, is there any place left for some real bad shit to happen?
Thanks dingoj, as you answered my question above.
exponential population growth fuled by cheap energy and a debt based monetary system leads to only one thing.
all this is merely a desperate attempt to prolong the ride while the "insiders" steal every asset they can. NOT ONE thing has been fixed! there will be no attempt to FIX anything, just kick the can until "something" happens leaving the global 99.99% to fend for themselves against tyrannical governments while the 0.01% flee to their enclaves.
bullish is a short term, reality will prevail. prepare accordingly.
-.5%, ok that's enough. Deploy BOTS!
Who knew being long commodites of real value and short paper promises and fiat could have made for such a great summer ending?
Thanks ZH.
"Unexpected" by the MSM of course.
Enjoy your commodity longs while they last. Because they are not going to last.
Recovery summer is back.
Get to work Benny boy!
Printing will cure this, right?
As Mr Durden has written previously, we need to stimulate the flow of funds. We should now implement a new large purchase asset program to continue onward to prosperity and growth. Bernanke is being hampered by politics - this is a first for the Neo-Classical Fed. It is also a shame. Bernenake, a Dr of the science of economics, should ignore the rhetoric and follow his mandate: lower unemployment so to stimulate growth.
So many examples of your thesis working Europe.
Europe has not implemented the right programs thusfar, nor have they spent enough money to fix their problems. Just as the case here, they have let politics get in the way of economics.
lol
Folks, observe ignorance on display. Must be EBS (Empty Brain Syndrome) or COS (Can of Shit)
Reminds me of Howard Beale in "Network" .... "they'll tell you any shit you wanna hear"
"Bernenake, a Dr of the science of economics"
I have a speech for you to read called "The Pretense of Knowledge."
von Hayek was a fringe thinker.
So was Gandhi
Tyler didn't write that!
not /sarc
Mr Durden has mentioned many times it is the flow of funds that matters, not the stock of funds. This is why the Central Banks should have implemented larger asset buying programs, and now need to institute new ones.
How will that increase the profit margin at my company so we can continue to pay workers living wages? Borrowing more money doesn't count as an answer.
Just take the damn money......give yourself a bonus.....then we'll liquidate.
What are these jobs you speak of Mr. Krugman? Have you ever held an actual productive one?
I have an actual productive job designing and producing product for consumption. It is becoming harder to actually produce profit in order to pay for my job.
Bernanke's inflationist policies have made raw materials more expensive, hurting margins from the start. His policies have given people less disposable income, hurting real retail sales. So now it costs more to produce my product, and we will sell less of them. Kind of hard to keep paying workers.
For a professor of economics and a Nobel Prize winner, you really are cluless to the workings of actual business. For the record, the real economy doesn't work by a single word in an economics textbook.
ya but ....but GM reporting off the scale car sales....jamming!!!
That will happen when you give away cars. GM selling at under production cost and to sub prime,very sub prime buyers ..welfare Cadillacs.
can we not just label sub-prime finance what it really is: garbage
The prices paid subset tells us all we need to know about the New QE and the corner Benron has painted itself into. QE has driven price inflation of goods ina a deflationary wage period. Financial repression and road to highly unstable society. Less prosperity and life, more violence and death.
tyler this is a bit sensationalist, no?
i mean you're reporting a 0.2 decrease from last time! this isnt statistically significant surely?
in addition what is the ISM .. its justa survey, who cares about a survey as its subjective and hardly hard data, i know the markets love these numbers but the truth is they are such poor indicators of whats happening on the ground.
0.2 here 0.2 there....pretty soon you're talking real rumbers.
Bad news that didn't send mr market higher, just gold.....Is the Berneke 'put' showing signs of weakness.
Just reality returning for the smart money.
This slow move into hard assets while trying not to raise their price
radically, is going to stop soon.I hope and expect to see a rapid divergence between
phyz and stocks soon.
What happens when there is more inventory produced than can ever actually be sold?
I actually know the answer and it isn't pretty. It usually ends up getting sold for anything a buyer is willing to pay, and always at a loss.
It won't matter how high the prices paid to produce new goods goes. Not when you can't sell any inventory to pay for the last bill that comes due. Bankruptcy becomes the only option.
Unless you become a Gub'ment Motors like entity...
Manufacturing sector shrinkage...
"It was in the pool! It was in the pool!"
Since the criticality of each and every data point becomes magnified the closer we get to the election, just take a look at the '08 elector voting demographis and ask yourself if you thin obama wiil be able to hold what he had.
This election is all about a totally Marxist visiion of the USA vs. the majority minority holding onto the Constitution by it's fingernails
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083335/Breakdown-demographics-reveals-black-voters-swept-Obama-White-House.html
What's a "majority minority"?
The USA not longer has any one ethnic "majority". But we do have many minorities, one of which is still the largest but no longer over 50% of the population. Take a guess.
Your article missed on very important piece of economic news Tyler. JP Moron just upgraded Morgan Stanley this morning. Uh Oh, you know what that means. Bank collapse and bailout in 3... 2... 1....
More trashing and printing of the Euro and US dollar coming. Flow out of Euros into US dollars with Draghi's printing, then Benny Bernanke's printing/trashing.
One big printing fest by the so-called Keynesians. More and more debt.
Has Krugman looked at the college tuition lately? Well over $100,000 for a 4 year in-state undergrad.
The young people are so burdened with debt and non-dis-chargeable loans. Some have several part-time low paying jobs just to keep their heads above the water. The banksters have themselves permanent debt-slaves.
It's what happens when you outsource your manufacturing and strategic industries overseas and financialized the economy over the last 30 years.
The US won't be able to cover it's debts and long-term obligations. The US dollar is going the way of the pound-sterling.
The prices paid change is scary.
Isn't it though? Scared the shit out of me. The rise in inventory is no peach either.
bullish TP!
WHO would lock into a 30 year mortgage on a depreciating wood box in this economy?
Beats me.
Both the US and Eurozone are showing contraction. And US construction contracted too!
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/sluggish-summer-u-s-ism-factory-index-and-construction-fall-eurozone-manufacturing-continues-to-contract/
I imagine a world where you have these corporations with warehouses stocked with inventory no person wants to buy, or once QE3 hits, can't buy because the inflation on said inventory is priced in.
Only an corporate cuckolded retard could lose to an incumbent President in this shitty economy. And the Republicans found the biggest one in the lot.