Our best guess is that business surveys, such as the PMIs, understated falls in activity in April and we suspect that the next batch of surveys, released as early as next week, will do so again in May. Despite the risk that the surveys are misrepresenting the precise shape of the recession/recovery, at the very least they should give us a sense of when firms have passed the worst.
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