New Residential ConstructionPrivately-owned housing starts in September 2014 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,017,000. This is 6.3 percent (+/- 9.3%)* above the revised August 2014 estimate of 957,000. |
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September 2014
+6.3* |
August 2014 (r) -12.8 |
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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and SalesU.S. total business end-of-month inventories for August 2014 were $1,752.3 billion, up 0.2 percent (+/-0.1%) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,353.4 billion, down 0.4 percent (+/-0.1%) from last month. |
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August 2014
+0.2 |
July 2014 (r) +0.4 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food ServicesU.S. retail and food services sales for September were $442.7 billion, a decrease of 0.3 percent (+/-0.5%)* from the previous month. |
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September 2014
-0.3* |
August 2014 (r) +0.6 |
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Monthly Wholesale TradeAugust 2014 sales of merchant wholesalers were $453.9 billion, down 0.7 percent (+/-0.4%) from last month. End-of-month inventories were $538.0 billion, up 0.7 percent (+/-0.4%) from last month. |
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August 2014
+0.7 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and ServicesThe Nation's international trade balance in goods and services increased to -$40.1 billion in August from -$40.3 billion in July (revised), as exports increased and imports increased. |
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-40.1° |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured goods in August decreased $56.1 billion or 10.1 percent to $502.0 billion. |
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August 2014
-10.1° |
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Construction SpendingTotal construction activity for August 2014 ($961.0 billion) was 0.8 percent (+/-1.8%)* below the revised July 2014 ($968.8 billion). |
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August 2014
-0.8* |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured durable goods in August decreased $54.5 billion or 18.2 percent to $245.4 billion. |
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August 2014
-18.2° |
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New Residential SalesSales of new single-family houses in August 2014 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 504,000. This is 18.0 percent (+/- 16.3%) above the revised July 2014 estimate of 427,000. |
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August 2014
+18.0 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail TradeAfter-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $20.9 billion for the second quarter 2014 (the 3 months ending July 31, 2014), up $7.0 (+/- 0.1) billion from first quarter 2014 (the 3 months ending April 30, 2014). |
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2nd Qtr 2014
+7.0 |
1st Qtr 2014 (r) -11.7 |
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Quarterly Services SurveyU.S. Information sector revenue for the second quarter of 2014, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, was $333.2 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent (+/- 0.9)* from the first quarter of 2014. |
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2nd Qtr 2014
+0.8* |
1st Qtr 2014 (r) +1.3 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service IndustriesManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $153.2 billion for the second quarter of 2014, up $14.2 (+/- 0.7) billion from first quarter of 2014. |
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2nd Qtr 2014
+14.2 |
1st Qtr 2014 (r) -19.8 |
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Rental Vacancy RateThe rental vacancy rate in the second quarter 2014 was 7.5 percent, down 0.7 (+/- 0.4) percentage points from the second quarter 2013 rate of 8.2 percent. The rental vacancy rates in the Northeast and Midwest were lower than the corresponding second quarter 2013 rates, while the rates in the South and West were not statistically different from the rates a year ago. |
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2nd Qtr 2014
+8.2 |
2nd Qtr 2013 +7.5 |
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Homeownership RateThe homeownership rate in the second quarter 2014 was 64.7 percent, down 0.3 (+/- 0.4)* percentage points from the second quarter 2013 rate of 65.0 percent. The homeownership rates in the Northeast and South were lower than the rates in the second quarter 2013, while the rates in the Midwest and West were not statistically different from the rates a year ago. |
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2nd Qtr 2014
+64.7* |
2nd Qtr 2013 +65.0 |
(*) The 90% confidence interval includes zero. The Census Bureau does not have sufficient statistical evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero.
(°) Statistical significance is not applicable or not measurable for these surveys. The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders estimates are not based on a probability sample, so we can neither measure the sampling error of these estimates nor compute confidence intervals.
(r) Revised.
All estimates are seasonally adjusted except for the Rental Vacancy Rate, Home Ownership Rate, and Quarterly Financial Report for Retail Trade. None of the estimates are adjusted for price changes.
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