# Manufacturing ISM for June 2010 - 56.2%

The June 2010 ISM Manufacturing Survey is out and PMI came in at 56.2%. This is a decline of -3.5% from last month's 59.7%. While this is the 11th month for expansion (anything above 50 is an expansion), this is a slowing on the manufacturing ISM. Why is this important? There is a relationship to overall GDP growth. The below GDP correlation numbers are annual. Taken to quarterly, the PMI correlation implies rough 2.2% Q2 2010 GDP. A correlation is not a fact so take this number with a wet thumb in the air.
($Q_i = ((Q_a + 1)^{-4})Q_{i-1}$)

The past relationship between the PMI and the overall economy indicates that the average PMI for January through June (58.5 percent) corresponds to a 5.5 percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP). In addition, if the PMI for June (56.2 percent) is annualized, it corresponds to a 4.8 percent increase in real GDP annually.

Hiring while still positive, with a 57.8, is -2.0% lower than last month. Below is the ISM manufacturing employment graph, normalized to zero, so show the Manufacturing ISM employment expansion and hiring trend.

The ISM neutral point is 50. Above is growth, below is contraction, although the ISM is this report is noting some variance in the individual indexes (see report). For example, A PMI above 42, over time, also indicates growth.

MANUFACTURING AT A GLANCE
JUNE 2010

Index

Series
Index
June
Series
Index
May
Percentage
Point
Change

Direction

Rate
of
Change
Trend*
(Months)
PMI 56.2 59.7 -3.5 Growing Slower 11
New Orders 58.5 65.7 -7.2 Growing Slower 12
Production 61.4 66.6 -5.2 Growing Slower 13
Employment 57.8 59.8 -2.0 Growing Slower 7
Supplier Deliveries 57.3 61.0 -3.7 Slowing Slower 13
Inventories 45.8 45.6 +0.2 Contracting Slower 3
Customers' Inventories 38.0 32.0 +6.0 Too Low Slower 15
Prices 57.0 77.5 -20.5 Increasing Slower 12
Backlog of Orders 57.0 59.5 -2.5 Growing Slower 6
Exports 56.0 62.0 -6.0 Growing Slower 12
Imports 56.5 56.5 0.0 Growing Unchanged 10

OVERALL ECONOMY Growing Slower 14
Manufacturing Sector Growing Slower 11

Below is the graph, normalized to 50, on new orders. New orders dropped -7.2% to 58.5 in June. This is a major slowing on new orders, although above 50 is still an expansion, that growth slowed dramatically.

Prices had a dramatic, -20.5 point drop from last month.

The ISM Prices Index registered 57 percent in June, 20.5 percentage points lower than the 77.5 percent reported in May. This is the 12th consecutive month in which the Prices Index has registered above 50 percent. While 32 percent of respondents reported paying higher prices and 18 percent reported paying lower prices, 50 percent of supply executives reported paying the same prices as in May. A Prices Index above 49.3 percent, over time, is generally consistent with an increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Index of Manufacturers Prices.

Production, graphed below, normalized to 50, was 61.4, a decrease of -5.2% from last month another glowing in the rate of growth.

Inventories, in the below graph (normalized to zero), contracted slower than last month, almost flat, to 45.8%. This is consistent with supplier's being slow on deliveries of raw materials to manufacturers, -3.7%. Inventory level changes were 69% of Q2 2010 GDP.