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imported>Doug Williamson
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imported>Doug Williamson
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(PMI).
Market conditions under which there is believed to be a greater probability that a subsequent price movement will be in the same direction as the previous period's price movement (rather than in the opposite direction).


1. ''Economic indicators - US.''
Extended trends lead to bubbles and crashes.
 
The US Purchasing Managers' Index measures new orders, production, employment and supplier deliveries, based on a survey of North American manufacturing businesses.
 
It is an important measure of economic activity.
 
 
The US PMI is published monthly by the US Institute for Supply Management.
 
 
2. ''UK''.
 
A similarly-structured index for UK manufacturing.
 
The UK PMI is published by IHS Markit and the Chartered Institute for Procurement and Supply (CIPS).
 
 
3.
 
Similar indices for other economies.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Chartered Institute for Procurement and Supply]]
* [[Adaptive expectations]]
* [[Institute for Supply Management]]
* [[Bubble]]
* [[PMI]]
* [[Correction]]
 
* [[Crash]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
* [[Efficient market hypothsis]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
* [[Mean reversion]]
* [[Overshooting]]
* [[Random walk]]
* [[Rational expectations]]
* [[Trend analysis]]

Revision as of 09:09, 2 May 2018

Market conditions under which there is believed to be a greater probability that a subsequent price movement will be in the same direction as the previous period's price movement (rather than in the opposite direction).

Extended trends lead to bubbles and crashes.


See also