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Non-Residential Real Estate Activity: “Improved”
April’s Beige Book report, the Federal Reserve’s qualitative assessment of conditions across the country’s 12 Districts, suggested that economic growth over the last month was split between “modest and moderate” as shown in Table 1. Headlining the list of concerns was the potential impact from the newly imposed (and proposed) tariffs, with contacts in the manufacturing and transportation industries expressing the most worry. (China has since filed a formal complaint with the WTO over the steel and aluminum tariffs.)