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Friday, October 18, 2019

Leading Economic Indicators Show Slowing Ahead

The index of leading economic indicators is pointing increasingly to slowing ahead for the US economy. Pulled down once again by manufacturing components, the LEI fell an unexpected 0.1 percent in September against Econoday's consensus for a 0.2 percent gain. Underlining the weakness is a 2 tenths downward revision to August to minus 0.2 percent.

The report said the results reflect uncertainty in the outlook and falling business expectations. Spreads in interest rates were another negative for the September LEI with positives including stock prices and the report's proprietary credit index.

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