ISM Services - May 2016


ECONODAY: The ISM's non-manufacturing index confirms what is proving to be a very weak month of May for the nation's economy. The index fell a very sharp 2.8 points to 52.9 to signal the weakest rate of monthly growth since January 2014. The report's employment index, in what matches this morning's data from the government, is the weakest component, down 3.3 points to a 49.7 level that signals marginal month-to-month contraction in the sample's employment levels...