American manufacturers are scoring ever deeper recessionary readings. We haven't seen this bad an ISM Manufacturing reading in quite a while. Can it take the broader economy with it? And what about gold - when exactly will it get its shine? The September ISM Manufacturing Index registered 47.8 percent, a decrease of 1.3 percentage points from the August reading of 49.1 percent. It's not only below 50 percent, which indicates a contraction, but it's actually the lowest level since June 2009, when the Great Recession formally ended, as the chart below shows. The sharp decline in the index rattled the Wall Street, ... (full story)