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Speaker 1: US manufacturing looked like on the headline anyway, that it
Speaker 1: had a pretty good month in June. In fact, as
Speaker 1: a Bloomberg reports today, the fastest pace of expansion in
Speaker 1: more than a year. When you look at the latest
Speaker 1: survey from the Institute for Supply Management, They're key index
Speaker 1: rose to fifty three point to last month. That's above fifty,
Speaker 1: so it's above the level that signals that manufacturing is expanding.
Speaker 1: It's up from fifty one point three in May, so
Speaker 1: that's all good news. At the same time, the i
Speaker 1: s M had a special survey asking the purchasing managers
Speaker 1: it surveys across the country if they are concerned about Brexit,
Speaker 1: are they seeing any impact on orders for US manufactured
Speaker 1: goods and more? Joining us to dive into this very
Speaker 1: important question now, Brad Holcom, he's chairman of the Manufacturing
Speaker 1: Business Survey Committee at the I S and Brad, welcome back.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and happy fourth of July to
Speaker 1: you and everyone. I will I will say thank you
Speaker 1: into you two and of course all our listends of
Speaker 1: a lovely holiday we're celebrating this weekend. I actually want
Speaker 1: to start with a special question, Brad, why did you
Speaker 1: decide to issue a special question to the people in
Speaker 1: your survey? Well, we felt that this was potentially monumental
Speaker 1: and deserving of a special look at that question, I
Speaker 1: think it's surprised most and so we went up to
Speaker 1: our two panels, both on the manufacturing and non manufacturing side,
Speaker 1: with a series of questions related to Brexit specifically, what
Speaker 1: did you ask them? We asked them about, uh, their
Speaker 1: their view, initial view of the net financial impact of Brexit,
Speaker 1: and then some details around what might be the areas
Speaker 1: of concerns such as financial market uncertainty, currency movement, global
Speaker 1: growth and so on. Okay, and these are we might
Speaker 1: even think it's early days too for manufacturers to see
Speaker 1: an impact, but I guess after all the volatility that
Speaker 1: we see, maybe they're concerned about that. What did you
Speaker 1: What did they say? What is the majority of view
Speaker 1: or is there one? Well? Half a step back. The
Speaker 1: current monthly report that we'll get to was largely collected
Speaker 1: before the Brexit announcement, and so we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 1: So this special question, the upshot of it is, when
Speaker 1: asked about the net financial impact manufacturing eight percent at
Speaker 1: a negligible impact, a slightly negative impact, seven per cent
Speaker 1: negative on the flip side, set a slightly positive impact,
Speaker 1: so on the whole negative, negligible to slightly negative in
Speaker 1: terms of financial impact. And of course, with the basic
Speaker 1: question of basic worry, I guess would be that there
Speaker 1: will be a drop in export orders because economies overseas
Speaker 1: will be weak, and that will hurt the demand. Now,
Speaker 1: new export orders, one of the sub indexes of the
Speaker 1: I s M index, rose actually fifty three point five
Speaker 1: in June from fifty two point five in May. We
Speaker 1: also saw somewhat higher production, somewhat higher new orders, even employment.
Speaker 1: That number rose above fifty for the first time since
Speaker 1: November of last year. You know, virtually all the indexes
Speaker 1: are pointing in the right direction. New orders you mentioned
Speaker 1: at fifty seven point zero is the highest since December
Speaker 1: of fourteen, and production at fifty four point seven is
Speaker 1: the highest since July fIF So the three indexes, including
Speaker 1: p m I, have reached highs for a year to
Speaker 1: year and a half time frame. What's driving it? I
Speaker 1: think it's building on the momentum that we've seen for
Speaker 1: the last four to four to six months. In the
Speaker 1: case of the p m I, it's been growing consecutively
Speaker 1: for four consecutive months, new orders and production for six
Speaker 1: consecutive months each. And that follows a five month period
Speaker 1: of a down draft where the p m I was
Speaker 1: below fifty. So we turned the corner and moving forward,
Speaker 1: and it looks like we've got some some momentum here.
Speaker 1: So Brad Stanley Fisher, who's Vice chair of the Federal Reserve,
Speaker 1: spoke today and he indicated that the FED probably needs
Speaker 1: to wait and see what the impact of briggs it
Speaker 1: is on the global economy on the US economy for
Speaker 1: it starts making any move on rates. Uh. Do you
Speaker 1: agree with that? Do you think the Fed should actually,
Speaker 1: if manufacturing is doing reasonably well, should the Fed be
Speaker 1: considering another interest rate increase this summer or this fall? Well?
Speaker 1: I agree that we all need to kind of wait
Speaker 1: and see. Even even our special report and questionnaire gathers
Speaker 1: their initial view really in the in the early days
Speaker 1: of this situation, and we've already seen the stock market recover,
Speaker 1: so we might get a slightly different answer if we
Speaker 1: were to pull today. So the real answer is we
Speaker 1: don't know. But it could go up down our sideways
Speaker 1: in the short term. In the long term it certainly
Speaker 1: could mean, uh, you know, greater competitiveness in the UK,
Speaker 1: throughout Europe and globally as well. So um, in terms
Speaker 1: of growth, what kind of growth does this signal your
Speaker 1: your index of manufacturing? And next, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people been wondering if there aren't some signs of recession
Speaker 1: right now in the US economy, Well, let's let's first
Speaker 1: say that the economy has been growing for eighty five
Speaker 1: consecutive months according to our statistics and our correlations, and
Speaker 1: this year the average p m I has been fifty
Speaker 1: point eight with corresponds to two point increase in real GDP,
Speaker 1: and this month annualized at fifty two point three point
Speaker 1: two would correspond to a three point two So we're
Speaker 1: in the two to three percent area, uh, in terms
Speaker 1: of the g d P. Brad Holcombe, thank you so
Speaker 1: very much. From the Institute for Supply Management, This is
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