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May 2013 Empire State Survey Goes Negative – Under Expectations

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in May 2013 shows manufacturing is contracting after expanding for the previous three months in a row. This noisy index has moved from 17.1 (May), 2.3 … Continue reading

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April 2013 Empire State Survey Continues to Say Manufacturing Expanding

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in April 2013 shows manufacturing has now expanded for three months in a row. This noisy index has moved from 6.6 (April 2012), 17.1 (May), 2.3 … Continue reading

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March 2013 Empire State Survey Continues to Say Manufacturing Expanding

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in March 2013 shows manufacturing has now expanded for two months in a row. This noisy index has moved from 20.2 (March), 6.6 (April), 17.1 (May), … Continue reading

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Fickle February 2013 Empire State Survey Now Saying Manufacturing Expanding

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in February 2013 shows manufacturing .is now expanding relatively strongly ending six months of contraction.  This is the highest expansion in well over a year. This … Continue reading

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January 2013 Empire State Survey Continues to Signal Contraction

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in January 2013 shows manufacturing contraction continues to be forecast for a sixth month in a row. Expansion is indicated by positive numbers in this index. … Continue reading

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December 2012 Empire State Survey Shows Contraction Continuing

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in December 2012 shows manufacturing contraction continues to be forecast for a fifth month after the previous eight months of expansion. Expansion is indicated by positive … Continue reading

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November 2012 Empire State Survey Still Shows Sector Contracting

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in November 2012 shows manufacturing contraction continues to be forecast for a fourth month after the previous eight months of expansion. Expansion is indicated by positive … Continue reading

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October 2012 Empire State Survey Continues to Predict Manufacturing Contraction

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in October 2012 shows manufacturing contraction continues to be forecast for a third month after the previous eight months of expansion. Expansion is indicated by positive … Continue reading

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Empire State Survey Very Negative in September 2012

Written by Steven Hansen [Note: This post is late as the New York Fed did not publicly post until 45 minutes after the scheduled post time – even though major media obviously had access to this report.  Just one more … Continue reading

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Empire State Survey Shows Manufacturing Contraction in August 2012

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in August 2012 shows manufacturing contraction after eight months of expansion. Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers in this index. This noisy index has moved … Continue reading

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Empire State Survey Improves in July 2012, Internals Ugly

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in July 2012 continued its eighth month of expansion – increasing modestly from a bad report last month.  Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to … Continue reading

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Empire State Survey Shows Manufacturing Growth Shrunk in June 2012

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in June 2012 continued its seventh month of expansion – but just barely.  Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to this index: This noisy index … Continue reading

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Empire State Survey Bounces Back in May 2012

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in May 2012 continued on its sixth month of expansion. Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to this index: This noisy index fell from 20.2 … Continue reading

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April 2012 Empire State Survey Declines But Still Indicates Growth

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in April 2012 continued on its fifth month of expansion. Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to this index: This noisy index fell from 20.2 … Continue reading

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March 2012 Empire State Survey Still Showing Improving Economy

Written by Steven Hansen The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in February 2012 continued on its fourth month of climb from negative territory. Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to this index: The index rose … Continue reading

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February 2012 Empire State Survey Exceeds Pundits’ Expectations

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey (manufacturing in New York State) in February 2012 continued on its third month of climb from negative territory. Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to this index: The index rose six points to 19.5. … Continue reading

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January 2012 Empire State Survey Indicating Moderate Expansion

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey in January 2012 continued on its third month of climb from negative territory.  Manufacturing expansion is indicated by positive numbers to this index: The index rose from a value of 9.5 to 13.5. This index … Continue reading

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December 2011 Empire State Manufacturing Survey Improves Strongly

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey in December 2011 climbed well away from negative territory to a value of 9.5. This index is currently at the same level it was one year ago. Econintersect continues to warn readers that this is … Continue reading

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Empire State Survey Is Positive in November 2011

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey in November 2011 climbed out of negative territory to a value of 0.6.  This ended a five month streak of negative readings which last month saw a value of -8.5.   In spite of the … Continue reading

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Key Elements of Empire State Manufacturing Survey Remain Unchanged In September 2011

The Empire State Manufacturing Survey in October 2011 remained in negative territory for the fifth month in a row, little changed at -8.5. Continue reading

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