US March Richmond Fed manufacturing composite index -4 vs +6 prior

• Services index -4 vs +11 last month
• Manufacturing shipments -7 vs +12 last month

Other details:

• Employment -1 vs 9 last month
• Wages 19 vs 21 last month
• Prices paid 3.75 vs 2.23 last month
• Prices received 2.34 vs 1.62 last month
• New orders -4 vs 0 last month
• Backlog of orders -1 vs -6 last month
• Capacity utilization -11 vs -6 last month
• Capital expenditures -7 vs -1 last month
• Services expenditure -18 vs -6 last month
• Finished goods inventories 3 vs 5 last month
• Raw materials inventory 8 vs 17 last month
• Equipment and software spending -1 vs 1 last month

This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at www.forexlive.com.