New Residential Construction CHART RSS FeedPrivately-owned housing starts in September 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872,000. This is 15.0 percent (+/- 12.1%) above the revised August 2012 estimate of 758,000. |
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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales CHART RSS FeedU.S. total business end-of-month inventories for August 2012 were $1,601.7 billion, up 0.6 percent (+/-0.1%) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,246.6 billion, up 0.5 percent (+/-0.2%) from last month. |
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+0.6 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services CHART RSS FeedU.S. retail and food services sales for September reached $412.9 billion, an increase of 1.1 percent (+/- 0.5%) from the previous month. |
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+1.1 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services CHART RSS FeedThe Nation’s international trade balance in goods and services worsened to $-44.2 billion in August from $-42.5 billion in July (revised), as exports decreased more than imports. |
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-44.2 |
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Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories CHART RSS FeedAugust 2012 sales of merchant wholesalers were $405.4 billion, up 0.9 percent (+/-0.7%) from last month. End-of-month inventories were $487.5 billion, up 0.5 percent (+/-0.4%) from last month. |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHART RSS FeedNew orders for manufactured goods in August decreased $24.9 billion or 5.2 percent to $452.8 billion. |
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-5.2 |
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2.6 |
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Construction Spending CHART RSS FeedTotal construction activity for August 2012 ($837.1 billion) was 0.6 percent (+/-2.1%)* below the revised July 2012 ($842.0 billion). |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHART RSS FeedNew orders for manufactured durable goods in August decreased $30.1 billion or 13.2 percent to $198.5 billion. |
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-13.2 |
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3.3 |
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New Residential Sales CHART RSS FeedSales of new single-family houses in August 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 373,000. This is 0.3 percent (+/- 9.3%)* below the revised July 2012 estimate of 374,000. |
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-0.3* |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade CHART RSS FeedAfter-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $19.3 billion for the second quarter 2012, up $3.5 (+/- 0.1) billion from first quarter 2012. |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service Industries CHART RSS FeedManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $149.0 billion for the second quarter of 2012, up $0.7 (+/- 0.4) billion from first quarter of 2012. |
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+0.7 |
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Quarterly Services Survey CHART RSS FeedU.S. information sector revenue for the second calendar quarter of 2012, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $295.1 billion, an increase of 0.8 percent (+/- 0.4) from the first quarter of 2012. |
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+0.8 |
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Housing Vacancies and Homeownership CHART RSS Feed
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65.5 |
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65.9 |
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