Richmond Fed Composite index for September -21 vs. -13 estimate

• Prior month -19
• Services index -1 vs -11 last month
• Manufacturing shipments -18 vs -15 last month.

Other details:

• Employment -22 versus -15 last month
• Wages 15 versus +14 last month
• Prices paid 3.36 versus 2.45 last month
• Prices received 1.57 versus 1.87 last month
• New orders -23 versus -26 last month
• Backlog of orders -16 versus -27 last month
• Capacity utilization -20 versus -17 last month
• Capital expenditures -13 versus -14 last month
• Services expenditure -17 versus -12 last month
• Finished goods inventories 20 versus 16 last month.
• Raw materials inventory is 12 versus 18 last month.
• Equipment and software spending money 13 versus -13 last month

This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.