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FYI: Today's release of the ISM Manufacturing report for the month of November confirmed some of the recent weakness that we have been seeing in the regional Fed manufacturing surveys as the headline reading showed a showed a decline of 0.3 points, falling from 59.0 down to 58.7. Even with the decline, though, today's report came in stronger than the consensus forecast of 57.8. Regards, Ted http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/12/1/stronger-than-expected-ism-manufacturing.html?printerFriendly=true