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The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management
® (ISM
®) Services Business Survey Committee: The Services PMI
® registered an all-time high of 63.7 percent, 8.4 percentage points higher than the February reading of 55.3 percent. The previous high was in October 2018, when the Services PMI
® registered 60.9 percent. The March reading indicates the 10th straight month of growth for the services sector, which has expanded for all but two of the last 134 months.
Nieves continues, For further historical context, the Services PMI
® debuted as the Non-Manufacturing NMI
® in 2008, although subindex data was collected for years in advance. In August 1997, the four subindexes Business Activity, New Orders, Employment and Supplier Deliveries that make up the Services PMI
®.
The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management
® (ISM
®) Services Business Survey Committee: The Services PMI
® registered 55.3 percent, 3.4 percentage points lower than the January reading of 58.7 percent. This reading indicates the ninth straight month of growth for the services sector, which has expanded for all but two of the last 133 months. The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 60.8 percent, up 3 percentage points from January s reading of 57.8 percent. (Supplier Deliveries is the only ISM
®
Report On Business
® index that is inversed; a reading of above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries, which is typical as the economy improves and customer demand increases.)
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®.
The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management
® (ISM
®) Services Business Survey Committee: The Services PMI
® registered 58.7 percent, 1 percentage point higher than the seasonally adjusted December reading of 57.7 percent. This reading is the highest since February 2019 (58.8 percent) and indicates the eighth straight month of growth for the services sector, which has expanded for all but two of the last 132 months. The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 57.8 percent, down 5 percentage points from December s reading of 62.8 percent. (Supplier Deliveries is the only ISM
®
Report On Business
® index that is inversed; a reading of above 50 percent indicates slower deliveries, which is typical as the economy improves and customer demand increases.)
ISM® Reports Economic Improvement to Continue in 2021
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Manufacturing Growth Expected in 2021; Revenue to Increase 6.9%; Capital Expenditures to Increase 2.4%; Capacity Utilization Currently at 85.7%; Services Growth Projected in 2021; Revenue to Increase 1.6%; Capital Expenditures to Increase 12.7%: Capacity Utilization Currently at 86.6%
TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Economic improvement in the United States will continue in 2021, say the nation s purchasing and supply management executives in the December 2020
Semiannual Economic Forecast. This expansion will continue a growth trend that began in June 2020, as indicated in the monthly ISM
®
Report On Business
®. Revenues are expected to increase in 15 of 18 manufacturing industries and 12 of 18 services-sector industries. Capital expenditures are expected to increase by 2.4 percent in the manufacturing sector (after a 2.4-percent decline in 2020) and i