Tuesday data distraction: Services PMI accelerates, trade gap gapes
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TUESDAY DATA DISTRACTION: SERVICES PMI ACCELERATES, TRADE GAP GAPES
Mixed economic data provided welcome distractions on Election Tuesday.
Diving right in, the American services sector unexpectedly added some heat in October.
The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) non-manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) USNPMI=ECI added 1.1 points to an even 56.0 instead of decelerating to 53.8 as analysts expected.
That's the highest headline since August 2022 and marks its 20th month of the last 22 north of 50, the PMI dividing line between expansion and contraction.
Below the topline number, the employment component bounded into expansion territory, new orders eased a tad, supplier deliveries accelerated and the elevated prices paid index - an inflation predictor - pulled back a bit.
While "concerns over political uncertainty were again more prevalent than the previous month," according to Steve Miller, chair of ISM's Services Survey Committee, Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics writes "This latest data point suggests that services sector output is far from crashing."
"It is ironic that the biggest contributor to the rise in the index was the employment subindex," Weinberg adds. "Everyone seems to think the labor market is softening. This PMI says otherwise."
Not to be outdone, S&P Global also issued its final take on services PMI USMPSF=ECI, which came in a point lower than ISM at 55.0, shaving 0.3 points from its initial "flash" take released a few weeks ago.
ISM and S&P Global differ in the weight they apply to different PMI components.
This graphic shows the extend to which the dueling PMIs disagree (or not):
The international trade deficit USTBAL=ECI grew as expected in September.
The gap between the value of goods and services imported to the United States and those exported abroad widened by 19.2% to $84.4 billion, about $300 million to the north of consensus.
The scale of the move reflects robust domestic demand, sure, but also hits at the possibility that importers are eager to pad their inventories in anticipation of the higher tariffs that would likely occur if Trump is elected.
"The outcome of the election could add upside risk to imports if businesses seek to pre-empt potential tariff increases in the event of a second Donald Trump Presidency," writes Matthew Martin, senior U.S. economist at Oxford Economics.
Trade has been a net drag on U.S. GDP for five of the last six quarters:
Breaking it down, imports (by far the bigger share of the trade pie) rose by 3.0% while exports declined 1.2%.
The goods deficit increased by 14.9% while the services surplus grew by 2.5%.
While closely watched goods trade gap with China yawned 14.1% wider, the U.S. still imported more from Mexico, which barely held onto its lead over China with respect to value of goods imported to the United States:
(Stephen Culp)
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ISM services PMI https://reut.rs/48ET1ok
Dueling PMIs https://reut.rs/40B5UNY
Trade balance and GDP https://reut.rs/48E7Jvq
Imports from China vs Mexico https://reut.rs/4hCxnos
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