Business Activity Is Steady-to-Better - 52.6 Total Mold Business Index for June 2009

摘要

The total Mold Business Index is a weighted average of the sub-indices for new orders, production, employees, backlog, exports and supplier deliveries. Stop the presses ... hold the phones ... listen, and listen tight. The Mold Business Index (MBI) for June, 2009 is 52.6. This is a 10.9-point increase from the May value of 41.7, and it is 9.9 points higher than the MBI value of 42.7 from June of last year. Except for Backlogs, all areas of business activity were steady-to-better when compared with the previous month. The downtrend in Mold Prices continued, but at least it was accompanied by a corresponding drop in Materials Prices. The Future Expectations component jumped up to an optimistic level of 63.2 in June.