{"id":14075,"date":"2016-09-06T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=14075"},"modified":"2016-09-06T19:07:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T23:07:55","slug":"us-weekly-earnings-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/06\/us-weekly-earnings-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"US weekly earnings slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org\/ISMReport\/NonMfgROB.cfm?navItemNumber=30541\">Institute for Supply Management<\/a> updated their Non-Manufacturing Index on September 6th:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In August, the NMI\u00ae registered 51.4 percent, a decrease of 4.1 percentage points when compared to July\u2019s reading of 55.5 percent, indicating continued growth in the non-manufacturing sector for the 79th consecutive month. A reading above 50 percent indicates the non-manufacturing sector economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates the non-manufacturing sector is generally contracting&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there is weakness in Manufacturing, as the ISM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org\/ISMReport\/MfgROB.cfm?navItemNumber=12942\">reported last week<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Manufacturing contracted in August as the PMI\u00ae registered 49.4 percent, a decrease of 3.2 percentage points from the July reading of 52.6 percent, indicating contraction in manufacturing for the first time since February 2016 when the PMI registered 49.5. A reading above 50 percent indicates that the manufacturing economy is generally expanding; below 50 percent indicates that it is generally contracting&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A 10-year graph of Manufacturing PMI shows that whipsaws around the 50 level are fairly common and not cause for alarm. A decline below the December 2015 low of 48.0, however, would be cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Manufacturing PMI\" alt=\"Manufacturing PMI\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-07-pmi.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:.9em;color:#999999;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quandl.com\/data\/ISM\/MAN_PMI-PMI-Composite-Index\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"noul\">quandl.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of greater concern is the declining growth of estimated weekly employee earnings which closely follows GDP. Weekly employee earnings &mdash; estimated by multiplying Total Non-farm Payrolls by Average Weekly Hours (Total Private) and Average Hourly Earnings &mdash; have held around the 4.0 percent level since early 2014 but are now tracking the decline of GDP. Further falls in Nominal GDP, below 2.43% p.a. in the second quarter, now appear likely.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Estimated Weekly Employee Earnings\" alt=\"Estimated Weekly Employee Earnings\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-09-07-payroll.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:.9em;color:#999999;\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/graph\/?g=6Zyu #FRED @stlouisfed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"noul\">FRED\/ US Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Supply Management updated their Non-Manufacturing Index on September 6th: In August, the NMI\u00ae registered 51.4 percent, a decrease of 4.1 percentage points when compared to July\u2019s reading of 55.5 percent, indicating continued growth in the non-manufacturing sector for the 79th consecutive month. 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