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…