NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Barack Obama may be overhyping his successes on manufacturing data.
The Institute for Supply Management manufacturing survey, which surveys more than 300 manufacturing firms for employment, inventories, production and other factors, for April came in at 54.8, much higher than the consensus 53.0 expectation according to economists polled by Thomson Reuters. But some are skeptical of long-term strength. For the rest of the story: http://www.thestreet.com/story/11515528/1/what-obama-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-manufacturing-data.html