Dallas Manufacturing Index: Prior -9.1% / Mkt Expects -4.1% / Actual -.5%

 Sept 28 (Reuters) - Details of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Dallas' Texas monthly manufacturing index released on Monday.

 Following are details from the survey:

                                          Expected 6

                              Sept    Aug  months

                             Index  Index  Index
General Business Activity        -6.4   -9.1   13.9*
Production                       -0.5   -9.7   33.0
Capacity utilization             -4.8  -13.3   30.7
Volume of new orders              8.0   -1.7   37.2*
Growth rate of orders            -4.8   -6.0   23.8
Unfilled orders                  -3.9  -10.0   12.8*
Volume of shipments               0.3  -11.2   34.5
Delivery time*                   -8.4   -7.2    4.3
Materials inventories*          -25.6  -29.6   -1.1
Finished goods inventories*     -21.3  -23.2   -5.4
Prices paid for raw materials     9.8    9.9   32.2*
Prices received   
for finished goods              -17.9  -21.4    2.1*
Wages and benefits               *0.0   *0.0   14.5
Number of employees              -8.1  -15.7   10.6*
Average employee workweek*       -7.4  -11.2   19.1
Capital expenditures*           -12.8  -15.3   -1.1

                                          Expected 6

                              Sept    Aug  months

                             Index  Index  Index
How has the                      -2.7   -6.7   16.9
outlook for your
company changed?

 NOTES:

 Beginning with the August 2009 report, the Dallas Fed said
it had sufficient data to report some components on a
seasonally adjusted basis.

 Items or components still reported on an unadjusted basis
are indicated with an asterisk (*).

 The index measures Texas' factory activity. Readings above
zero indicate expansion and negative levels contraction. The
survey began in 2004.

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