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United States ISM Purchasing Managers Index (PMI)

Business Confidence in the United States remained unchanged at 51.50 percent in April of 2015. Business Confidence in the United States averaged 52.79 percent from 1948 until 2015, reaching an all-time high of 77.50 percent in July of 1950 and a record low of 29.40 percent in May of 1980. Business Confidence in the United States is reported by the Institute for Supply Management.

(text-source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/business-confidence)

Graph below: ISM Manufacturing Index June 2014 up to April 2015

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Worldwide Rig Count 2010- 5/2015 (OIL / business barometer)

Baker Hughes has issued the rotary rig counts as a service to the petroleum industry since 1944, when Hughes Tool Company began weekly counts of U.S. and Canadian drilling activity. Hughes initiated the monthly international rig count ...

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