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2020-08-07 Economy

US manufacturing soars to a 15-month high

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Jeez, I thought unnecessary lock-downs destroy the economy? (maybe necessary ones have the opposite effect?)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-07 00:19|| 2020-08-07 00:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Those numbers--being an election year--are probably just as suspect as COVID case numbers.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-07 00:24|| 2020-08-07 00:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Consumer product companies are working round the clock to restock supplies of household cleaners and toilet paper, and no doubt supplies for meals and for home improvements and repairs as well — that may have something to do with it.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-07 01:13|| 2020-08-07 01:13|| Front Page Top

#4 PMI hit a low of under 40 in March or April of this year. Manufacturing was (still is) devastated and recovering from a severe ~~COVID~~ China Plague deficit.

Posted by Hupinens Juling5588 2020-08-07 01:34|| 2020-08-07 01:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry, misread the graph. Low of near 40 in April. Also New Order and Production hit a low of about 25 in April. Devastating.

Manufacturing PMI (PDF File)

Posted by Hupinens Juling5588 2020-08-07 01:40|| 2020-08-07 01:40|| Front Page Top

#6 #1, stunningly dumb comment.

Posted by Thimp Clusort2035 2020-08-07 06:07|| 2020-08-07 06:07|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Embrace the sarcasm...

Posted by Warthog 2020-08-07 07:18|| 2020-08-07 07:18|| Front Page Top

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