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Purchasing Managers’ Index

A monthly survey of purchasing managers about new orders, output, employment, supplier deliveries and inventories, condensed into a diffusion index.

Around a release

Spreads may widen, prices may gap and an order may be filled at a different price from the one requested. Order anatomy

The release

How it is measured.

Responses are aggregated so that a reading above 50 indicates that more firms reported expansion than contraction, and a reading below 50 the opposite.

Why markets watch it.

PMIs arrive early in the month and cover the month just ended, which makes them one of the timeliest indicators of the direction of activity.

An explanation of why the release is followed, not a view on what any market will do when it is published. Educational information, not investment advice or a recommendation to trade.

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Primary sources

Who publishes it.

The figures, the methodology and the release schedule are on the publisher’s own website. That is the only place this page sends you for a date.

Publishers of the Purchasing Managers’ Index, by area, with links to the primary source
Area	Publisher	Primary source
United States	Institute for Supply Management	ismworld.org (opens in a new tab)
Global	S&P Global	pmi.spglobal.com (opens in a new tab)

Cadence: Monthly
Dates: Not shown on this page: GIO4X keeps no economic calendar of its own. TradingView’s calendar · All publishers’ pages

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