Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales CHARTU.S. total business sales for November were $1,057.0 billion, down 5.1% from last month. Month-end inventories were $1,485.1 billion, down 0.7% from last month. |
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-5.1 |
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-3.5 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services CHARTU.S. retail and food service sales for November reached $343.2 billion, a decrease of 2.7 percent from the previous month. |
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-2.7 |
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-2.1 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services CHARTThe Nation's international deficit in goods and services decreased to $40.4 billion in November from $56.7 billion (revised) in October, as imports decreased more than exports. |
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-40.4 |
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-56.7 |
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Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories CHARTNovember 2008 sales of merchant wholesalers were $349.2 billion, down 7.1 percent from last month. End-of-month inventories were $435.0 billion, down 0.6 percent from last month. |
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-0.6 |
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-1.2 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade CHARTAfter-tax profits for retail corporations with assets greater than $50 million averaged 1.6 cents per dollar of sales for the third quarter 2008 (the 3 months ending Oct. 31, 2008), down 0.7 (+/- 0.1) cents from the average of 2.3 cents for the second quarter 2008 (the 3 months ending Jul. 31, 2008). |
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-0.7 |
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+0.1 |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHARTNew orders for manufactured goods in November decreased $18.7 billion or 4.6 percent to $384.6 billion. |
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-4.6 |
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-6.0 |
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Construction Spending CHARTTotal construction activity for November 2008 ($1,078.4 billion) was 0.6 percent below the revised October 2008 ($1,085.3 billion). Please see our web site for further details: http://www.census.gov/constructionspending |
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-0.6 |
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-0.4 |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHARTNew orders for manufactured durable goods in November decreased $1.8 billion or 1.0 percent to $186.9 billion. |
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-1.0 |
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-8.4 |
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New Home Sales CHARTSales of new one-family houses in November 2008 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 407,000. This is 2.9% below the revised October 2008 estimate of 419,000. |
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-2.9 |
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-5.2 |
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Housing Starts/Building Permits CHARTPrivately-owned housing starts in November 2008 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 625,000. This is 18.9 percent below the revised October 2008 estimate of 771,000. |
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-18.9 |
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Quarterly Services Survey CHARTU.S. Information sector revenue for the third quarter of 2008, not adjusted for seasonal variation, holiday or trading-day differences, or price changes, was $283.8 billion, an decrease of 0.2 percent (+/- 0.5) from the second quarter of 2008. |
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-0.2 |
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2.3 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining and Trade CHARTManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits averaged 7.5 cents per dollar of sales for the third quarter of 2008, up 1.4 (+/- 0.1) cents from the average of 6.1 cents for the second quarter of 2008. |
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+1.4 |
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Housing Vacancies and Homeownership CHART
Homeownership Rate (HR) Rental Vacancy Rate (RVR) Homeowner Vacancy Rate (HVR) |
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67.9 |
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68.2 |
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