Conference Board Leading Index for September,

  • prior was -0.1%, revised from-0.2%

Not an immediate FX market-mover.

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Leading Economic Index

  • Declined 0.3 percent in September
  • Four of the seven components increased Positive contributors to the index—in order from the largest positive contributor to the smallest—are money supply, the yield spread, the sales to inventories ratio, and rural goods exports
  • Building approvals, share prices and gross operating surplus declined in September.

Between March and September the six-month growth rate of the leading economic index decreased 0.3%, percent (about a 0.6 percent annual rate), a reversal from its increase of 2.5 percent (about a 5.2 percent annual rate) over the previous six

  • Three of the seven components increased (diffusion index, six-month span equals 42.9 percent)

Coincident Economic Index

  • Three of the four components in the CEI increased in September
  • In order from the largest positive contributor to the smallest—occurred in retail trade, household gross disposable income and industrial production
  • Employed persons declined in September

Grew 0.6 percent (about a 1.3 percent annual rate) in the six-month period through September 2014, down from 1.5 percent (about a 3.1 percent annual rate) in the previous six months. Meanwhile, real GDP increased at a 2.0 percent annual rate in the second quarter of 2014, down from 4.3 percent (annual rate) in the first quarter.

  • Three of the four components in the series making positive contributions (diffusion index, six-month span equals 87.5 percent)