®.
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 62.7 percent, which is 1 percentage point lower than last month s all-time high of 63.7 percent. The April reading indicates the 11th straight month of growth for the services sector, which has expanded for all but two of the last 135 months. The Supplier Deliveries Index registered 66.1 percent, up 5.1 percentage points from March s reading of 61 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.) The Prices Index figure of 76.8 percent is 2.8 percentage points higher than the March reading of 74 percent, indicating that prices increased in April, and at a faster rate. This is the index s highest readi
Construction, Service-Sector Economic Report at All-time High
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USD/JPY gains 1% on the week, 3.9% on the month, 7.2% on the year.
Excellent US March payrolls help to stabilize USD/JPY near highs.
Limited Good Friday liquidity inhibits currency market payroll response.
Treasury rates mark time,10-year yield moves back above 1.7%.
FXStreet Forecast Poll is neutral short-term, bearish medium and long-term.
The US yield engine continued to power the USD/JPY as the differential between Treasuries and Japanese Government Bonds almost guarantees flows into the American currency
An excellent March US payroll report helped keep the USD/JPY stable at its 12-month high on Friday after a week of gains.
®.
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
ISM®
Construction was the fifth-highest growing sector in the report.
“Residential new home construction demand continues to outpace supply.
Construction companies reported the highest price increases for materials and services in March of all 18 services industries.
“All-time high” was the buzz phrase in a monthly economic report meeting for industries like construction, rental, warehousing and others. Anthony Nieves, chair of the Institute of Supply Management (ISM
®) Services Business Survey Committee, delivered the March services sector report on April 5. The PMI
®, or the Purchasing Managers’ Index, is a set of economic indicators based off surveys of private-sector companies.
“The Services PMI
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