The drop was the largest in more than six years and led economists to conclude that businesses were responding to slower economic growth.
The drop was the first in three months, and led economists to conclude that the economy seems to be softening again.
The unexpected strength led economists to raise their forecasts for the rest of the year.
It has led economists to derive conclusions for economic policy from a study of an abstract of a market situation.
This debate would notably lead economists, politicians and other parties to explore the question of computational complexity.
This has led economists in the last decade to reconsider the link between wages and jobs at the bottom.
The 2008 financial crisis has led economists to pay greater attention to Keynes's original theories.
Such results understandably led economists to neglect the costs of job dislocation.
It's has led economists across the political spectrum to predict that the economy will grow faster than they originally thought next year.
Weak economic reports have led some analysts and economists to revise their predictions about when the economy will rebound.