US Activity Update: Soft Data From Business Surveys Keeps Pointing To Slower Hiring

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Bottom Line From The Last Two Days' Public Data Releases: The Dallas and Richmond Feds run PMI-like surveys of the manufacturing and services sectors. These surveys largely point to slower hiring, business activity, and revenue, but our activity dashboard still signals that the US economy is still growing (above-trend), slowing, and stabilizing.

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