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The Chicago Purchasing Managers Business Barometer increased to 54.2 during May .......... The MNI Chicago Report is produced by MNI in partnership with ISM-Chicago. The survey covers a sample of over 200 purchasing professionals in [...]


The Chicago Purchasing Managers Business Barometer increased to 54.2 during May ..........

The MNI Chicago Report is produced by MNI in partnership with ISM-Chicago. The survey covers a sample of over 200 purchasing professionals in the Chicago area with a monthly response rate of about 50%. Summary data are contained in Haver's USECON database, with detail including the ISM-style index in the SURVEYS database. The Action Economics Forecast Survey is available in AS1REPNA.

Chicago Purchasing Managers Index (%, SA) Jun May Apr Jun '18 2018 2017 2016
General Business Barometer 54.2 52.6 58.7 63.5 62.4 60.7 53.0
ISM-Adjusted General Business Barometer 54.5 52.6 57.7 61.3 60.7 59.0 51.9
  Production 57.3 50.5 64.2 66.3 64.5 64.2 54.5
  New Orders 58.6 54.6 59.8 64.7 63.8 63.6 55.6
  Order Backlogs 41.1 51.2 44.7 59.7 58.0 55.2 47.1
  Inventories 51.4 49.9 47.4 55.2 55.3 54.9 47.2
  Employment 50.0 50.4 56.2 55.0 55.2 52.9 49.4
  Supplier Deliveries 55.4 57.4 60.9 65.3 64.8 59.4 52.8
  Prices Paid 53.8 50.8 64.5 71.6 74.0 64.1 53.2
  • Gerald Cohen provides strategic vision and leadership of the translational economic research and policy initiatives at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

    He has worked in both the public and private sectors focusing on the intersection between financial markets and economic fundamentals. He was a Senior Economist at Haver Analytics from January 2019 to February 2021. During the Obama Administration Gerald was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Macroeconomic Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury where he helped formulate and evaluate the impact of policy proposals on the U.S. economy. Prior to Treasury, he co-managed a global macro fund at Ziff Brothers Investments.

    Gerald holds a bachelor’s of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and is a contributing author to 30-Second Money as well as a co-author of Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy.

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