The best that can be said about this month’s Credit Managers’ Index (CMI) is that things did not get appreciably worse. The latest data suggest a third month of slump, and it appears the economy is languishing in a state that is not quite in crisis but which isn’t showing energy either. For the third month in a row, the overall index was slightly over 54. The fact that it went up by .4 is nothing much to cheer, as the overall index had been over 55 for the six months prior to May’s slip. “If there is anything to be somewhat encouraged by it is that manufacturing improved over the really down month last July, but at the same time there was weakness in the service sector that didn’t appear the previous month,” said Chris Kuehl, PhD, managing director of Armada Corporate Intelligence and economic advisor to the National Association of Credit Management (NACM).
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