Sentence examples for index of business activity from inspiring English sources

The Institute for Supply Management said its index of business activity declined to 49.5 in September, from 50.5 in August.

The Purchasing Management Association of Chicago said its index of business activity in the Midwest rose to a higher-than-expected 56.8 in June, from 53.9 in May.

The National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said its index of business activity in the Midwest rose to 54.9 from 51.5 in July.

A closely watched index of business activity, based on surveys of purchasing managers across the euro zone, has risen for a second month in a row.

We learn this morning that the Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index of business activity unexpectedly declined, and fell back into territory associated with economic contraction.

The Institute for Supply Management, which tracks the manufacturing sector, said its index of business activity rose to 55.7 in May, better than the 55 reading that analysts had forecast.

The composite purchasing managers' index, a measure of business activity in which a reading above 50 indicates growth, stood at 59.5 in July, the perkiest since records began in 1998.

Financial information company Markit said its purchasing managers index for the region, a gauge of business activity, slipped to 53 in April from 53.1 the previous month.

An index of consumer confidence was up, but a gauge of business activity in the Chicago area plunged.

And the purchasing managers index for the euro zone's manufacturing sector — a gauge of business activity —rose for the fourth month, climbing to 42.6 in June, from 40.7 in May.

The institute said its index of manufacturing activity, computed from answers that purchasing executives provide about the pace of business activity, jumped to 62.8 from 57 in October.