Weekly economic indicators: Revival in activity shows signs of slackening

Many key indicators trended lower last week after a strong showing earlier this month

A number of high-frequency weekly economic indicators seemed to have taken a pause last week after some strong gains earlier this month.

Power generation, goods carried by trains and urban emission numbers were weaker than in the recent past. Business Standard tracks these and other numbers, including traffic congestion and location data as a way of getting a more current picture of the economy ahead of macroeconomic numbers, which are often released with a lag. The location data comes after a gap and is as of October 13. Railway numbers are as of Saturday October 17. All other numbers are