“Worse May Be To Come” As US Services Slump Into Contraction, Business Confidence At Record Lows

Thursday, March 3, 2016
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/03/2016

From the narrative-destroying 49.8 preliminary print for US Services PMI (the lowest since the government shutdown in 2013), today’s final February Services PMI printed an even worse 49.7 (below 50.0 expectations) even as stocks have soared in the last 2 weeks. Business confidence tumbles to its lowest since Aug 2010 (record lows). This drops the composite PMI to a dismal 50.0, implying negative GDP growth in Q1. Then ISM Services printed 53.4 (down from January but a small beat) to 2 year lows, confirming the decoupling from manufacturing’s demise was a fallacy (merely a lagged response) as the last leg of the economic recovery’s stool gets kicked away.

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