Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales CHARTU.S. total business sales for July were $1,219.5 billion, up 0.5% from last month. Month-end inventories were $1,507.1 billion, up 1.1% from last month. |
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+0.5 |
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+1.7 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services CHARTU.S. retail and food service sales for August reached $381.2 billion, a decrease of 0.3 percent from the previous month. |
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-0.3 |
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-0.5 |
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Quarterly Services Survey CHARTU.S. Information sector revenue for the second quarter of 2008, not adjusted for seasonal variation, holiday or trading-day differences, or price changes, was $284.9 billion, an increase of 2.5 percent (+/- 0.5) from the first quarter of 2008. |
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2.5 |
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-4.6 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services CHARTThe Nation's international deficit in goods and services increased to $62.2 billion in July from $58.8 billion (revised) in June, as imports increased more than exports. |
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-62.2 |
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-58.8 |
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Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories CHARTJune 2008 sales of merchant wholesalers were $410.6 billion, down 0.3 percent from last month. End-of-month inventories were $441.3 billion, up 1.4 percent from last month. |
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1.4 |
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0.9 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining and Trade CHARTManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits averaged 6.1 cents per dollar of sales for the second quarter of 2008, down 1.1 (+/- 0.1) cents from the average of 7.2 cents for the first quarter of 2008. |
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-1.1 |
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-0.3 |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHARTNew orders for manufactured goods in July increased $5.9 billion or 1.3 percent to $465.4 billion. |
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1.3 |
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2.1 |
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Construction Spending CHARTTotal construction activity for July 2008 ($1,084.4 billion) was 0.6 percent below the revised June 2008 ($1,091.3 billion). Please see our web site for further details: http://www.census.gov/constructionspending |
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-0.6 |
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0.3 |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHARTNew orders for manufactured durable goods in July increased $2.9 billion or 1.3 percent to $219.3 billion. |
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1.3 |
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1.3 |
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New Home Sales CHARTSales of new one-family houses in July 2008 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 515,000. This is 2.4% above the revised June 2008 figure of 503,000. |
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+2.4 |
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-2.1 |
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Housing Starts/Building Permits CHARTPrivately-owned housing starts in July 2008 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 965,000. This is 11.0 percent below the revised June 2008 estimate of 1,084,000. |
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-11.0 |
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+10.4 |
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Housing Vacancies and Homeownership CHART
Homeownership Rate (HR) Rental Vacancy Rate (RVR) Homeowner Vacancy Rate (HVR) |
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68.1 |
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68.2 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade CHARTAfter-tax profits for retail corporations with assets greater than $50 million averaged 2.2 cents per dollar of sales for the first quarter 2008, down 1.0 cents from the average of 3.2 cents for the fourth quarter 2007. |
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-1.0 |
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