But, but, but… the rest of the world’s PMIs are soaring as soft-survey data trumps any hard data facts. US Manufacturing dropped from 57.3 to 56.3 despite analysts that were convinced it should rise further to 57.5. This is the biggest miss on record, and the 2nd miss in a row. In spite of soaring markets proving the recoverty is just picking up and accelerating, new export orders weakened, manufacturing production fell, and input costs surged. But, stocks are surging on this dismal news…
as Employment tumbled to its worst of the year!
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A gentle reminder from BofA of the uselessness of the soft survey based PMI data…
the US data mills churn out a lot of surveys. Since the last FOMC meeting, there have been four new ISM readings and a bunch of regional releases. A popular view is that these surveys are better than hard data.
In our view, however, these data get way too much air time. They give a timely, rough read on the economy, but should get little weight once hard data are released.
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1lzoQip Tyler Durden