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Conference Board Leading Index At Odds With Atlanta Fed GDPNow

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  • The Conference Board Leading Index fell by slightly less than expected in July (-0.4% vs -0.5% consensus) after a marginally downward revised -0.7%.
  • It doesn’t materially change the overall outlook though, declining for a fifth consecutive month and “suggesting recession risks are rising in the near term”
  • CB Senior Director Ozyildirim: “Consumer pessimism and equity market volatility as well as slowing labor markets, housing construction, and manufacturing new orders suggest that economic weakness will intensify and spread more broadly throughout the US economy. The Conference Board projects the US economy will not expand in the third quarter and could tip into a short but mild recession by the end of the year or early 2023.”
  • That compares to latest tracking estimates from Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow for the economy to have bounced +1.6% annualized in early estimates for Q3.

Conference Board LEI (white), real GDP (yellow) and ISM manufacturing (green)Source: Bloomberg

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