An index of activity in both manufacturing and services edged up in January from a record low.
The Philly Fed index of activity was predicted to rise in June from 3.9 but came in at minus 7.7.
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The Institute for Supply Management said Monday that its index of factory activity slipped to 51.3 percent.
The Reuters Purchasing Manufacturer's index of factory activity fell to 47.3 in July, down 0.6 points from a month before.
The National Association of Purchasing Managers' index of manufacturing activity fell to 43.6 in July from 44.7 a month before.
Things looked cheerier in American factories, where the ISM index of manufacturing activity beat expectations and crept up to 51.5, ending three consecutive months of contraction.
The index of manufacturing activity published by America's Institute for Supply Management fell much more sharply than expected in December, to a four-month low of 54.2.
The National Association of Purchasing Managers' index of manufacturing activity rose to 47.9 in August from 43.6 a month before, its biggest monthly gain in five years.
Recent bad news included a sharp fall in the National Association of Purchasing Management's index of manufacturing activity in December: it hit its lowest level since April 1991.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's index of manufacturing activity showed a bigger-than-expected contraction in August, one day after a New York reading showed a contraction for the first time this year.
That ended in a hurry on Wednesday, as a leading index of manufacturing activity fell to a 19-month low and the ADP Employment report painted a dismal picture for jobs.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's February index of business activity, an indicator of business conditions for manufacturers in the region, posted a surprise decline to -12.5, while a positive reading had been expected.
There was more gloom on October 30th, when the Mortgage Bankers Association published its latest weekly index of mortgage activity: the decline in the past month was the steepest for five years.
The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing activity, a forward-looking gauge of the strength of the U.S. manufacturing sector, came in at 53.7 on June 5, a level consistent with economic expansion.
The closely monitored Index of Economic Activity of the Central Bank, or IBC-Br, showed that the Brazilian economy grew at a seasonally adjusted rate of a disappointingly low 1.55 percent over the last 12 months.
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The findings support research from the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which shows that in 2010, entrepreneurs between the ages of 55 and 64, accounted for 23 percent of new entrepreneurs, up from 14 percent in 1996.
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New business creation by the 55 to 64-year-old age group is up sharply over the past 15 years from 14.3 percent of all entrepreneurs in 1996 to 20.9 percent in 2011, according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2011.
Giving a big boost to stocks was the release at 10:00 a.m. of the ISM Manufacturing Survey, showing a second straight month of expansion, with index of factory activity rising to 51.7 in October, up from up from 51.5 in September.
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The state ranked 4th last year in tax costs on new firms as calculated by the Tax Foundation, and a Kauffman Center index of entrepreneurial activity showed Wisconsin with the 7th-largest rise last year among the handful of states that did better at all.
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This was true during the recession of 2000-01, and according to the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity (KIEA), which measures the new entrants to self-employment and business ownership (two measures of entrepreneurship), it has been true even through the Great Recession of 2008-09 and its aftermath.
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The ISM index of national factory activity fell to 43.5 in September from 49.9 in August.
Business conditions for mid-Atlantic manufacturers remain barely positive this month, as the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's index of general business activity slowed in April from March.
Ihe IBC-Br is the index of monthly economic activity from the Central Bank, and the monthly GDP proxy is now been below trend for the seventh straight month.
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The ISM index of non-manufacturing activity rose from 40.1 to 42.9.
The initial results from HSBC's January Purchasing Managers' Index survey of Chinese manufacturers showed activity there contracting, though at a slightly slower pace than in December.
The euro zone's purchasing-managers index, a gauge of manufacturing activity, fell in November to a level consistent with a 1% quarterly drop in gross domestic product, according to research firm Capital Economics.
HSBC's monthly purchasing managers' index a gauge of business activity fell to a worse-than-expected 50.5 from March's 51.6 on a 100-point scale.
The purchasing managers' index a gauge of business activity fell to 46.5 in March from 47.9 the previous month, indicating that the eurozone economy is likely to remain in recession in the first quarter of 2013.
Meanwhile, HSBC's preliminary or "flash" reading of China manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index showed Monday that activity improved in April from levels seen in March, but remained below the threshold of 50, indicating a contraction.
U.S. economic reports due for release Friday include durable goods orders, personal income and outlays, the Chicago Fed national activity index, the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey, and the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey.
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