General Business Conditions Index Largest Monthly Decline on Record The headline general business conditions index largest monthly decline on record plummeted twenty-six points in June, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Empire State Manufacturing Survey for June 2019 and business activity took a sharp downturn, according to firms responding to the survey. [...]
US SBQ Spot Market Prices Slip US SBQ spot market prices slip for most grades of special bar quality (SBQ) in AMM’s latest assessment on Friday 12/14 driven by late year discounting although overall demand remains strong. Sources indicated that lead times stretch from late February to early March 2019. The price for 1.000” Round [...]
The Index Well Above Previous Peak, Reached 111.2 The Index well above its previous peak of 102.4, reached in March 2006, is now at 111.2. The Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for August 2018, released 9/20, expects the economy will continue to expand through 2018. The leading indicators are consistent with a solid growth [...]
Retail Sales Rose in June Retail sales rose 0.5 percent in June and May's gain was revised up from 0.8 to a whopping 1.3 percent. Monday's report of another increase in business inventories in May is in-line with our expectation for Q2 GDP to get a boost of nearly ½ percentage point from inventories." Wells [...]
