Mumbai, May 16 -- The US economy will be mostly flat for the rest of 2025, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in the Spring 2025 ISM Supply Chain Planning Forecast (formerly known as the Spring ISM Semi-annual Economic Forecast). Expectations for the remainder of 2025 are lower than those expressed in December 2024. Trade issues, continued inflation concerns, and geopolitical uncertainty are all headwinds for the rest of the year.
For manufacturing sector revenue for 2025 is expected to increase, on average, by 0.1 percent. This is 4.1 percentage points lower than the December 2024 forecast of 4.2 percent, and 0.7 percentage point lower than the 0.8-percentage point year-over-year increase reported for 2024. Thirty-four perc...