The new orders index was 52.0, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the previous month.
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The new orders index continued to stay above the threshold as well, NBS said today.
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The new orders index also remained below zero, at -7.8, while the shipments index was positive at 3.0.
The new orders index fell marginally to 52.7 from 52.9, but new export orders rose 0.9 to 50.1.
Markit's new orders index fell below the 50 level for the first time since December 2010, dropping to 49.6 from October's 52.9 as underlying demand remained weak.
These signs have included significant drops in initial jobless claims, increases in the index of Leading Indicators, as well as the ISM manufacturing new orders index extending above 50.
At the same time it was reported that the ISM New Orders Index also plunged substantially, from 64.1 in March to 52.7 in April, not encouraging for service sector business activity for the next few months.
CLSA's new export orders index plummeted to 28.2 in November, from 44.3 in October.
The index for new orders rose to 53.1 from 46.3, showing that orders actually grew in August for the first time in over a year.
The official PMI index for new orders increased to 51.6 in January from 51.2 in December, but the category for exports dropped to 48.5 from 50.
There is also disturbing evidence that the weakness in the so-called periphery countries has spread to the 'core' - not just France, where the index reflecting new manufacturing orders fell to its lowest level since 2009, but also to Germany.
Dhanda asserts that the trends in global industrial production, U.S. durable goods orders and the global ISM new order index all argue for a more cautious stance on chip stocks.
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An index based on purchasing managers' views about new orders, output, employment and the like fell in November to its lowest level since it was started in 1992.
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Manufacturing index, which measures orders in the pipeline at New York state businesses.
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The U.S. non-manufacturing ISM came in better than expected at 53.7 in May from 53.5 in April, driven by strong new orders and business activity that were offset partially by a decline in the employment index.
The Bank of Scotland's latest Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) suggested a second successive monthly drop in new business orders.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, durable goods orders, the Chicago Fed national activity index, leading economic indicators and new residential sales.
The PMI in March, for example, strengthened to 61.2, up from 57 in December. (An index value of 50 is the demarcation between and expansion and contraction.) New orders, production and employment all showed increased strength.
New orders and shipments for manufacturing in New York, however, slumped this month, according to the Empire index.
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