• Prior was 50.1
• Business activity 55.0 vs 53.0 expected
• Prior business activity 52.6
• New orders 56.0 vs 50.3 prior
• Employment 46.5 vs 46.4 prior
• Prices 69.2 vs 69.9 prior

The pickup in new orders is encouraging and runs counter to the poor reading on that metric in the S&P Global survey. The poor number is on employment, which is skidding along the recent bottoms.

This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.