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Manufacturing Pulse Index: Nov 2025 Reading Is 38

The official Nov 2025 release of the U.S. Manufacturing Pulse Index: a reading of 38, with pillar scores and the trailing range.

The U.S. Manufacturing Pulse Index reads 38 for Nov 2025. The composite rose 3 points versus the prior month and sits 7 points above its year-ago reading, against a trailing-12-month range of 31 to 38. Readings above 50 indicate expanding U.S. manufacturing conditions across the demand, labor, materials, and energy series the index tracks; readings below 50 indicate contraction.

U.S. Manufacturing Pulse Index, Nov 2025: 38. Trailing 12 months: low 31, high 38. Built from federal data (FRED, BLS, EIA, Census) and refreshed automatically as agencies publish.

About this release

This is the archived Nov 2025 release of the U.S. Manufacturing Pulse Index, published under the index's monthly release calendar (a reading for month M is released early in month M+1). The index methodology, input series, and weighting are documented on the methodology page, and the full monthly history is downloadable as JSON and CSV from the datasets page. Cite this release as: MFG Calcs, "U.S. Manufacturing Pulse Index, Nov 2025 release," MFG Calcs Data Library, 2026, https://www.mfgcalcs.com/news/manufacturing-pulse-index-2025-11.

Published 2025-12-01.