Gary Siegel

Newly issued Treasury securities held in stripped form decreased about $423 million in October to a total of $212.285 billion, the Bureau of the Public Debt reported Thursday.

The U.S. services sector expanded at a slower pace in October as the non-manufacturing business activity composite index was 57.1 in the month, compared to 58.6 in September, on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Institute for Supply Management reported Wednesday.

New orders for manufactured goods dropped 0.6% in September, after falling a revised 10.0% in August, initially reported as a 10.1% plunge, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

New York City business activity grew at its slowest pace in six months in October, as the current business conditions index dropped to 54.8 from 63.7 in September, the Institute for Supply Management-New York's Report on Business index, released Tuesday, indicated.

The costs of QE3 will exceed the program's benefits, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President and CEO Richard W. Fisher said Monday.

The overall economy grew for the sixty-fifth straight time, while the manufacturing sector expanded for the seventeenth consecutive month, the Institute for Supply Management reported Monday.

Construction spending declined 0.4% in September, the Commerce Department said Monday, and is 2.9% above the September 2013 level.

Expounding on the reason why his dissented on the Federal Open Market Committee decision this week, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota explained in a statement Friday the medium-term outlook for inflation hasn't improved this year, and could be worse.

The University of Michigan's final October consumer sentiment index reading was 86.9, compared to the preliminary October 86.4 and the final September 84.6, according to market sources.

The Chicago Purchasing Managers' Business Barometer soared to 66.2 in October from 60.5 in September, the National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said Friday.

The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Report on Business rose to 65.6 in October from 63.2 in September, the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee reported Friday.

The Midwest Economy Index held at 0.51 in September unchanged from a revised 0.51 in August, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported Friday.

The Federal Reserve will stop its monthly purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities and longer-term Treasury securities under its quantitative easing program, while forward guidance maintains interest rates will remain at zero to 0.25% range, for a "considerable time," the Federal Open Market Committee announced Wednesday after its two-day meeting.

Texas service sector activity "continued to expand in October," according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey, as the revenue index dropped to 14.0 from 26.9.

Service sector activity "strengthened further" in October, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond service-sector activity survey, released Tuesday.

Manufacturing activity in the central Atlantic region "expanded" in October, according to the monthly business activity survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, as the manufacturing index rose to 20 in October from 14 in September

The consumer confidence index gained to 94.5 in October from a revised 89.0 last month, The Conference Board reported Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, "increased again in October," according to the monthly business activity survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.

Pending home sales grew 0.3% to an index reading of 105.0 in September, after an unrevised 1.0% gain to 104.7 in August, according to a report released Monday by the National Association of Realtors.

Sales of new single-family homes grew 0.2% to a 467,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate in September, according to data released by the Commerce Department Friday.