{"id":428874,"date":"2026-03-24T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-richmond-fed-composite-index-0-vs-10-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:25:10","slug":"us-richmond-fed-composite-index-0-vs-10-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-richmond-fed-composite-index-0-vs-10-expected-428874\/","title":{"rendered":"US Richmond Fed composite index 0 vs -10 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior was -10<\/li>\n<li>Services +9 vs -8 prior<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing shipments -2 vs -13 prior<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a nice bounce and the zero reading on the headline is the best since February 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">Current Conditions:<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"2\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,0,0\">Shipments: -2 vs -13 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,1,0\">New Orders: +4 vs -9 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,2,0\">Employment: -2 vs -7 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,3,0\">Backlog of Orders: -10 vs -14 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,4,0\">Capacity Utilization: -5 vs -12 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,5,0\">Vendor Lead Time: +13 vs -1 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,6,0\">Local Business Conditions: -5 vs -15 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,7,0\">Capital Expenditures: -6 vs -5 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,8,0\">Finished Goods Inventories: +5 vs +7 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,9,0\">Raw Materials Inventories: +4 vs +11 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,10,0\">Equipment &amp; Software Spending: -8 vs -8 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,11,0\">Services Expenditures: -14 vs -20 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,12,0\">Wages: +14 vs +18 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2,13,0\">Availability of Skills Needed: -12 vs -15 prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">Price Trends (12-month % change):<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"4\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,0,0\">Prices Paid: 6.11% vs 6.52% prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4,1,0\">Prices Received: 4.85% vs 4.25% prior<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\">New orders flipped positive for the first time in recent months. Vendor lead times surged, suggesting potential supply-side tightening. Services spending remains deeply negative. Firms still expect price growth to moderate over the next 12 months, though prices received accelerated in March.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior was -10 Services +9 vs -8 prior Manufacturing shipments -2 vs -13 prior This is a nice bounce and the zero reading on the headline is the best since February 2025.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}