Prior was -8.8
Details:
Employment: +9.7 vs +12.9 last month
Prices paid: +46.9 vs +43.6 last month
New orders: +14.4 vs +5.0 last month
Shipments: vs +3.2 last month
Unfilled orders: vs -6.2 last month
Inventories: vs +6.5 last month
Average workweek: vs +14.7 last month
Six-months from now indicators:
6 month index: vs +41.6 last month
Capex index 6-month forward: vs +30.3 last month
The Philly Fed is a solid look at manufacturing in the region but the entire US manufacturing sector is increasingly irrelevant in terms of national employment, GDP and markets. It represents something of a broader look at overall economic sentiment, so it still has some value but it’s rarely an FX market mover or anything else.
Separately, the import/export price indexes were released for November:
Import prices +0.4% vs -0.1% expected (prior 0.0%)Import prices y/y vs +0.3% priorExport prices +0.5% vs +0.2% expected (prior was 0.0%)
There is some inflation hidden in these numbers and all of this is coming with oil prices at very low levels.
This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.