David Hensley
David Hensley
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PMI data confirm that global manufacturing has made a solid start to 2006.
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The latest PMI data point to a slight moderation in the pace of global manufacturing output, to a still robust 5 to 6 percent annual rate.
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The (Purchasing Managers Index) points to robust, broad-based growth.
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Tight labor market, acceleration in wages -- it's a description of an economy that's simmering, but it hasn't boiled over yet into inflation.
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My doctor said you've got two choices: Take insulin or lose weight.
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The base of global growth is strengthening and broadening overseas. It looks like we're picking up the pace and we're moving back into above-trend growth rates.
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The national reports give a message of well-balanced growth with good momentum heading into the second quarter.
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Japan is back on its feet and growing again.
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January purchasing managers' surveys signal that the impressive acceleration in manufacturing activity from the final quarter of 2005 has carried over into the new year.
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We marked up forecasts for the euro area and Japan. It's just a sense that these economies, especially the euro area, are on a stronger growth path.
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The labor market exhibited renewed strength, which suggests that manufacturers and service providers expect the current acceleration in growth to be maintained in the coming months.
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In Asia, we see growth remaining steady and fast.
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In some sense the risk the central banks run is they are coming in a little too late.
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Input price pressures are abating and this should reduce uncertainty and pressure on profit margins in coming months.