Business conditions in the Mid America region continue to be positive but are showing signs of stress.

Ernie Goss, an economics professor at Creighton University in Omaha compiles the monthly survey of businesses in the nine-state region. He says the overall index for September fell to fifty-seven point five, down from sixty-one point one in August.

He says impacts of the tariffs are being felt…

Goss says that was the twenty second straight month of a positive index.

He says the jobs numbers also fell, from fifty eight point five in August to fifty six point two in September…

Goss says inflation continues to creep up..

Goss says fifty four percent of the businesses in the survey report that international tariffs are having an impact on their bottom lines.