Manufacturing Dive, 1/6/2026
Nathan Owens reports:
U.S. manufacturing activity decreased to its lowest point of 2025 last month, affected by continued tariff uncertainty and weak demand, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s latest Purchasing Managers’ Index.
ISM’s index registered 47.9% in December, down 0.3 percentage points compared with November. A PMI index below 50% shows an industry in contraction.
Despite improvements in three of the four main demand areas — including new orders, backlog of orders and new export orders — the indexes continued to be in contraction as they have been for months. Meanwhile, production slipped 0.4 percentage points, but was in expansion for the second month in a row.
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