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S&P Global

S&P Global is a financial information and analytics company providing credit ratings, benchmarks, and market indices, including widely tracked PMI surveys.

Known aliases

  • S&P Global Flash Manufacturing PMI

Current stories

leadershipConfirmed2 publishers

Rising UK hiring leaves employers with a deepening pool of candidates

UK permanent hiring grew for a second straight month in September, lifting the KPMG and REC placements index to 50.9, a four-year high. KPMG's Jon Holt called the recovery fragile, so employers have to judge how much permanent headcount to commit before this month's Budget sets tax policy.

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence65
investConfirmed5 publishers

Trump says he ordered staff to work up a ban on 1.6 million barrels a day of diesel exports

Diesel at $6.53 a gallon is a political problem for Trump. The remedy under discussion would hold a record 1.6 million barrels a day at home, in a market where the world price still sets the US price.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 6%
Operator
Operator 34%
Investor
Investor 60%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives70
Confidence62
investOne report1 publisher

Trump's emergency order reaches the Chinese transformers under America's data-center boom

China supplies close to 30% of some transformer and switchgear categories and more than 40% of US battery imports, so the Energy Department's new power to condition those purchases lands on a buildout planning to go from 62 GW to 152 GW.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption42
Hype gap+12
Incentives68
Confidence52
investOne report1 publisher

Japan's 55.1 flash PMI puts the AI capex cycle into a G7 macro print

New orders at their strongest since January 2018 and a record 11.5 trillion yen of July exports turn a thematic trade into an order book, on a single source that dates its own data loosely.

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption62
Hype gap+22
Incentives45
Confidence44