The evidence strongly and consistently supports the truthfulness of the statement. The most authoritative source provided, a blog post from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) itself, explicitly confirms that the October 2025 Services PMI reached an '8-month high.' A simple chronological calculation confirms that an 8-month high relative to an October 2025 report would mean the last higher reading was in February 2025, perfectly matching the statement's claim. This is directly corroborated by a high-authority secondary source, Reuters, which reports in its headline that 'US services activity hits eight-month high'. Other primary sources, such as the official press release, provide the raw data that these analyses are based on. While some of the provided sources refer to a different but parallel index (the S&P Global Services PMI), they do not contradict the information about the ISM Services PMI. The core claim is verified by the most relevant primary and secondary sources with no conflicting evidence.