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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales icon

Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales

U.S. total business end-of-month inventories for November 2016 were $1,827.5 billion, up 0.7 percent (+/- 0.1 percent) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,326.7 billion, up 0.1 percent (+/-0.2 percent)* from last month.

Released:
January 13, 2017

Next Release:
February 15, 2017

November 2016

+0.7
% change in Inventories

October 2016 (r)

-0.1*
% change in Inventories

Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services icon

Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services

U.S. retail and food services sales for December were $469.1 billion, an increase of 0.6 percent (+/-0.5%) from the previous month.

Released:
January 13, 2017

Next Release:
February 15, 2017

December 2016

+0.6
% change

November 2016 (r)

+0.2*
% change

Monthly Wholesale Trade icon

Monthly Wholesale Trade

November 2016 sales of merchant wholesalers were $452.6 billion, up 0.4 percent (+/- 0.5 percent)* from last month. End-of-month inventories were $595.3 billion, up 1.0 percent (+/- 0.2 percent) from last month.

Released:
January 10, 2017

Next Release:
February 9, 2017

November 2016

+1.0
% change in Inventories

October 2016 (r)

-0.1*
% change in Inventories

Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders icon

Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders

New orders for manufactured goods in November decreased $11.3 billion or 2.4 percent to $458.3 billion.

Released:
January 6, 2017

Next Release:
February 3, 2017

November 2016

-2.4°
% change

October 2016 (r)

+2.8°
% change

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Deficit icon

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Deficit

The Nation's international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $45.2 billion in November from $42.4 billion in October (revised), as exports decreased and imports increased.

Released:
January 6, 2017

Next Release:
February 7, 2017

November 2016

45.2°
$ billion

October 2016 (r)

42.4°
$ billion

Construction Spending icon

Construction Spending

Total construction activity for November 2016 ($1,182.1 billion) was 0.9 percent (+/-1.5%)* above the revised October 2016 ($1,171.4 billion).

Released:
January 3, 2017

Next Release:
February 1, 2017

November 2016

+0.9*
% change

October 2016 (r)

+0.6*
% change

Advance Monthly Retail Inventories icon

Advance Monthly Retail Inventories

November 2016 end-of-month inventories were $609.6 billion, an increase of 1.0 percent (+/- 0.2%) from last month.

Released:
December 29, 2016

Next Release:
January 26, 2017

November 2016

+1.0
% change in Inventories

October 2016 (r)

-0.4
% change in Inventories

Advance U.S. International Trade in Goods icon

Advance U.S. International Trade in Goods

The advance international trade deficit in goods increased to $65.3 billion in November from $61.9 billion in October as exports decreased and imports increased.

Released:
December 29, 2016

Next Release:
January 26, 2017

November 2016

65.3°
$ billion

October 2016

61.9°
$ billion

Advance Monthly Wholesale Inventories icon

Advance Monthly Wholesale Inventories

November end-of-month inventories were $594.5 billion, up 0.9 percent (+/- 0.2 percent) from last month.

Released:
December 29, 2016

Next Release:
January 26, 2017

November 2016

+0.9
% change in Inventories

October 2016 (r)

-0.1*
% change in Inventories

New Residential Sales icon

New Residential Sales

Sales of new single-family houses in November 2016 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 592,000. This is 5.2 percent (+/- 14.1%)* above the revised October 2016 estimate of 563,000.

Released:
December 23, 2016

Next Release:
January 26, 2017

November 2016

+5.2*
% change

October 2016 (r)

-1.4*
% change

Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders icon

Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders

New orders for manufactured durable goods in November decreased $11.0 billion or 4.6 percent to $228.2 billion.

Released:
December 22, 2016

Next Release:
January 27, 2017

November 2016

-4.6°
% change

October 2016 (r)

+4.8°
% change

New Residential Construction icon

New Residential Construction

Privately-owned housing starts in November 2016 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,090,000. This is 18.7 percent (+/- 6.7%) below the revised October 2016 estimate of 1,340,000.

Released:
December 16, 2016

Next Release:
January 19, 2017

November 2016

-18.7
% change

October 2016 (r)

+27.4
% change

Quarterly Services Survey icon

Quarterly Services Survey

The estimate of U.S. selected services total revenue for the third calendar quarter of 2016, not adjusted for seasonal variation or for price changes, was $3,512.5 billion, an increase of 1.6 percent (+/- 0.2%) from the second quarter of 2016 and up 5.3 percent (+/- 0.6%) from the third quarter of 2015. The first quarter of 2016 to second quarter of 2016 percentage change was not revised from 3.4 percent (+/- 0.4%).

Released:
December 8, 2016

Next Release:
February 17, 2017

3rd Qtr 2016

+1.6
% change

2nd Qtr 2016

+3.4
% change

Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade icon

Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade

Seasonally adjusted after-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $23.9 billion for the third quarter 2016 (the 3 months ending October 31, 2016), up $0.6 (+/- 0.1) billion from second quarter 2016 (the 3 months ending July 31, 2016).

Released:
December 5, 2016

Next Release:
March 20, 2017

3rd Qtr 2016

+0.6
$ billion

2nd Qtr 2016 (r)

+3.1
$ billion

Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service Industries icon

Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service Industries

Manufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $138.3 billion for the third quarter of 2016, up $8.3 (+/- 0.3) billion from second quarter of 2016.

Released:
December 5, 2016

Next Release:
March 20, 2017

3rd Qtr 2016

+8.3
$ billion

2nd Qtr 2016 (r)

+7.4
$ billion

Homeownership Rate icon

Homeownership Rate

The homeownership rate in the third quarter 2016, 63.5 percent, was not statistically different from the third quarter 2015 rate of 63.7 percent. The homeownership rates in the Northeast, Midwest, South and West were not statistically different from the rates in the third quarter 2015.

Released:
October 27, 2016

Next Release:
January 31, 2017

3rd Qtr 2016

+63.5*
percent

3rd Qtr 2015

+63.7
percent

Rental Vacancy Rate icon

Rental Vacancy Rate

The rental vacancy rate in the third quarter 2016 was 6.8 percent, down 0.5 (+/- 0.4) percentage points from the third quarter 2015 rate of 7.3 percent. The rental vacancy rate in the West was lower than the rate in the third quarter 2015, while the rates in the Northeast, Midwest and South were not statistically different from the rates in the third quarter 2015.

Released:
October 27, 2016

Next Release:
January 31, 2017

3rd Qtr 2016

+6.8
percent

3rd Qtr 2015

+7.3
percent

(*) 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.

(°) Statistical significance is not applicable or not measurable for these surveys. The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders estimates are not based on a probability sample, so we can neither measure the sampling error of these estimates nor compute confidence intervals.

(r) Revised.

All estimates are seasonally adjusted except for the Rental Vacancy Rate, Home Ownership Rate, Quarterly Financial Report for Retail Trade, and Quarterly Services Survey. None of the estimates are adjusted for price changes.

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