The Empire State Manufacturing Survey consists of a series of diffusion indices distilled from a monthly survey of New York regional manufacturing executives and seeks to identify trends across 22 different current and future manufacturing related activities.
Today’s report showed an overall improvement for both current and future assessments of manufacturing activity with the current activity index rising to a still contraction level of -1.99 while future activity also increased rising to a level of 35.43.
Current prices paid increased to 16.96 while current new orders declined to -7.45 while assessments of future new orders increased to 31.89.
