US October Richmond Fed manufacturing composite index -14 vs -21 prior

• Services index +3 vs -1 last month
• Manufacturing shipments -8 vs -18 last month

Other details:

• Employment -17 vs -22 last month
• Wages 16 vs 15 last month
• Prices paid 2.70 vs 3.36 last month
• Prices received 1.71 vs 1.57 last month
• New orders -17 vs -23 last month
• Backlog of orders -14 vs -16 last month
• Capacity utilization -11 vs -20 last month
• Capital expenditures -23 vs -13 last month
• Services expenditure -22 vs -17 last month
• Finished goods inventories 17 vs 20 last month
• Raw materials inventory 12 vs 12 last month
• Equipment and software spending -21 vs -13 last month

The numbers improved but that comes after a particularly bad string of data.

This article was written by Adam Button at www.forexlive.com.