OMAHA, N.E.(WNAX)- The Mid America region is feeling more negative economic pressures.

Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss says there are more mixed signals.

Goss says he expects high inflation to continue.

Goss says interest rates will also continue to rise.

Goss conducts the monthly survey of business managers in the nine-state region from Minnesota and the Dakotas to Arkansas.