The ISM services survey will provide little comfort for Fed officials, with the prices paid index edging up again despite weakness in the activity and employment indices. Nonetheless, given the recent strength of the hard activity data and the more positive message from alternative business surveys, our sense is that the ISM surveys are understating economic growth.
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