Construction Spending CHARTTotal construction activity for March 2009 ($969.7 billion) was 0.3 percent above the revised February 2009 ($967.1 billion). Please see our web site for further details: http://www.census.gov/constructionspending |
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0.3 |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHARTNew orders for manufactured goods in March decreased $3.2 billion or 0.9 percent to $345.3 billion. |
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-0.9 |
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0.7 |
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Housing Vacancies and Homeownership CHART
Homeownership Rate (HR) Rental Vacancy Rate (RVR) Homeowner Vacancy Rate (HVR) |
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67.3 |
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67.8 |
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New Home Sales CHARTSales of new one-family houses in March 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 356,000. This is 0.6% below the revised February 2009 estimate of 358,000. |
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-0.6 |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHARTNew orders for manufactured durable goods in March decreased $1.3 billion or 0.8 percent to $161.2 billion. |
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-0.8 |
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2.1 |
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Housing Starts/Building Permits CHARTPrivately-owned housing starts in March 2009 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 510,000. This is 10.8 percent below the revised February 2009 estimate of 572,000. |
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-10.8 |
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+17.2 |
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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales CHARTU.S. total business sales for February were $994.9 billion, up 0.2% from last month. Month-end inventories were $1,421.3 billion, down 1.3% from last month. |
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0.2 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services CHARTU.S. retail and food service sales for March reached $344.4 billion, a decrease of 1.1 percent from the previous month. |
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-1.1 |
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+0.3 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services CHARTThe Nation's international deficit in goods and services decreased to $26.0 billion in February 2009 from $36.2 billion in January, as exports increased and imports decreased. |
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-26.0 |
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-36.2 |
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Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories CHARTFebruary 2009 sales of merchant wholesalers were $319.7 billion, up 0.6 percent from last month. End-of-month inventories were $419.3 billion, down 1.5 percent from last month. |
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-1.5 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade CHARTAfter-tax profits for retail corporations with assets greater than $50 million averaged 1.2 cents per dollar of sales for the fourth quarter 2008 (the 3 months ending Jan. 31, 2009), down 0.5 (+/- 0.1) cents from the average of 1.6 cents for the third quarter 2008 (the 3 months ending Oct. 31, 2008). |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining and Trade CHARTManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax losses averaged 3.3 cents per dollar of sales for the fourth quarter of 2008, down 10.5 (+/- 0.2) cents from the after-tax profits average of 7.2 cents for the third quarter of 2008. |
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-10.5 |
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Quarterly Services Survey CHARTU.S. Information sector revenue for the fourth quarter of 2008, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $278.9 billion, a decrease of 1.2 percent (+/- 0.5) from the third quarter of 2008. |
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-1.2 |
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-0.4 |
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