- Some respondents reporting labour shortages
- Geopolitical concerns also being voiced
- Index shows continued momentum into Q4
- Says index can’t keep going up and up (as long as it doesn’t keep going down and down though eh? )
- Says today’s 56.6 print is still a good number and that the progress in manufacturing should continue
- Sees little fall out from global slowdown
- Geopolitics are a concern , Hong Kong in particular (Is he kidding us, that’s only just happened?)
- A little cooling in productions not a concern
- Sees a good Q4, about the same as Q3
I always find some of the comments from the ISM bigwigs quite far removed from reality sometimes. You can’t be blaming the Hong Kong protests for a possible drop in future manufacturing.
It’s all Hong Kong’s fault