US Business Services Weekly Datapoints and Week Ahead

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US Business Services Weekly Datapoints and Week Ahead

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US Business Services Equities

AmericasWeekly Datapoints and Week Ahead

Industrial Services

Joshua Chan, CFA

ASA Index Modestly Improves Analyst

The ASA Staffing Index, which tracks changes in temporary and contract employment, joshua.chan@ubs.com

for the week ending 5/31 was +5.3% yoy, marginally up from +5.1% in the prior week. +1-212-713 9957

The rolling 4-week average was +4.9%, up from +4.6% in the previous week. Karandeep Singhania

Associate Analyst

SIA Index Moderately Slightly but Still Solid karandeep.singhania@ubs.com

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The SIA Bullhorn Staffing Indicator, which tracks temporary staffing hours worked based

on the Bullhorn software, was +4% yoy for the week ending 5/30, down slightly from Brianna Kamdoum

+5% in the prior week. Commercial staffing was +6% yoy, down from +7% in the Associate Analyst

previous week, including strength in Light Industrial staffing (+10%) while Office/ brianna.kamdoum@ubs.com

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Clerical remains challenged (-9%). Professional staffing and IT staffing were +2% and

+3% yoy, respectively, each stable from the prior week. On a rolling 4-week basis, the

headline index was +4% yoy, similar to the previous week.

UBS Evidence Lab US Active Job Listings Declines

According to the UBS Evidence Lab US Job Listings Monitor (> Access Dataset), which

tracks job openings across 50,000 US companies, total active job listings were -4% in

the week ending 6/6, down from -3% in the prior week. The rolling 4-week average

decline was -2% yoy, down from -1% in the previous week.

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index Nudges Lower in May

The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index was 95.3 in May, below 95.9 in April and still