Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales CHART RSS FeedU.S. total business end-of-month inventories for December 2012 were $1,623.1 billion, up 0.1 percent (+/-0.1%)* from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,274.1 billion, up 0.3 percent (+/-0.2%) from last month. |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services CHART RSS FeedU.S. retail and food services sales for January reached $416.6 billion, an increase of 0.1 percent (+/- 0.5%)* from the previous month. |
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+0.1* |
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Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories CHART RSS FeedDecember 2012 sales of merchant wholesalers were $418.9 billion, virtually unchanged (+/-0.5%)* from last month. End-of-month inventories were $497.7 billion, down 0.1 percent (+/-0.4%)* from last month. |
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-0.1* |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services CHART RSS FeedThe Nation's international trade balance in goods and services improved to -$38.5 billion in December from -$48.6 billion in November (revised), as exports increased and imports decreased. |
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-38.5 |
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-48.6 |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHART RSS FeedNew orders for manufactured goods in December increased $8.6 billion or 1.8** percent to $484.8 billion. |
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1.8** |
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-0.3** |
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Construction Spending CHART RSS FeedTotal construction activity for December 2012 ($885.0 billion) was 0.9 percent (+/-1.6%)* above the revised November 2012 ($876.9 billion). |
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Housing Vacancies and Homeownership CHART RSS FeedHomeownership Rate (HR)
Rental Vacancy Rate (RVR)
Homeowner Vacancy Rate (HVR) |
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65.4 |
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66.0 |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders CHART RSS FeedNew orders for manufactured durable goods in December increased $10.0 billion or 4.6 percent to $230.7 billion. |
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4.6** |
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0.7** |
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New Residential Sales CHART RSS FeedSales of new single-family houses in December 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 369,000. This is 7.3 percent (+/- 15.3%)* below the revised November 2012 estimate of 398,000. |
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-7.3* |
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New Residential Construction CHART RSS FeedPrivately-owned housing starts in December 2012 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 954,000. This is 12.1 percent (+/- 13.4%)* above the revised November 2012 estimate of 851,000. |
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+12.1* |
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-4.3 |
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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 $15.1 billion for the third quarter 2012, down $4.1 (+/- 0.1) billion from second quarter 2012. |
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-4.1 |
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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 $132.5 billion for the third quarter of 2012, down $13.6 (+/- 0.4) billion from second quarter of 2012. |
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-13.6 |
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Quarterly Services Survey CHART RSS FeedU.S. information sector revenue for the third calendar quarter of 2012, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $295.3 billion, an increase of 0.3 percent (+/- 0.8)* from the second quarter of 2012. |
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+0.3* |
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(*) 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.
(**) Because the survey estimates are not based on a probability sample, we can neither measure the sampling error of these estimates nor compute confidence intervals.