The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: December 2012

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 a slight decline for current assessments of manufacturing activity and an improvement to future assessments with the current activity index falling to a notably weak level of -8.1 while future activity improved to 18.66.

Current prices paid rose to 16.13 while current new orders weakened to -3.7 as assessments of future new orders improved to 32.26.

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: September 2012

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 a notable deceleration of current assessments of manufacturing activity and an improvement to future assessments with the current activity index falling to a notably weak level of -10.41 while future activity improved to 27.22.

Current prices paid rose to 19.15 while current new orders weakened to -14.03 as assessments of future new orders improved to 17.02.

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: April 2012

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 a notable deceleration of current assessments of manufacturing activity and a continued decline to future assessments with the current activity index falling to 6.56 while future activity declined to 43.12.

Current prices paid declined to 45.78 while current new orders weakened to 6.48 and assessments of future new orders improved to 45.78.

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey: March 2012

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 a notable improvement for current assessments of manufacturing activity and a continued decline to future assessments with the current activity index climbing to 20.21 while future activity declined to 47.5.

Current prices paid jumped to 50.62 while current new orders weakened to 6.84 and assessments of future new orders weakened slightly to 41.98.