The soft ISM manufacturing report for July suggests that the economy will continue to grow at the sub-par annualised rate of around 1.5% in the third quarter. While this is not fast enough to reduce the unemployment rate, it is not obvious that it is weak enough to prompt the Fed into taking significant policy action either.
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