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Surveys
2 guides in Finabase Learn
- Consumer sentiment and confidence: how the surveys work How the Michigan sentiment and Conference Board confidence indexes are built, why soft survey data and hard spending data disagree, and how to read them.
- PMI explained: how purchasing managers’ indexes work How a purchasing managers’ index is built from survey answers, what the 50 line means, how ISM and S&P Global PMIs differ, and why a PMI measures breadth, not size.
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