The modest fall in the ISM manufacturing index to 50.1 in February, from 50.9, leaves the index still above the levels seen over the second half of last year. Nevertheless, the survey clearly doesn’t capture the more recent concerns about the coronavirus and already appears to be being dismissed as old news by the markets.
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