New Residential ConstructionPrivately-owned housing starts in November 2020 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,547,000. This is 1.2 percent (+/- 8.6%)* above the revised October 2020 estimate of 1,528,000. |
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+1.2* |
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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and SalesU.S. total business end-of-month inventories for October 2020 were $1,948.7 billion, up 0.7 percent (+/- 0.1 percent) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,482.3 billion, up 0.9 percent (+/-0.1 percent) from last month. |
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October 2020
+0.7 |
September 2020 (r) +0.8 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food ServicesU.S. retail and food services sales for November 2020 were $546.5 billion, a decrease of 1.1 percent (+/-0.5%) from the previous month. |
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November 2020
-1.1 |
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Quarterly Services SurveyThe estimate of U.S. selected services total revenue for the third quarter of 2020, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $3,929.9 billion, an increase of 7.8 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from the second quarter of 2020 and down 3.9 percent (+/- 0.2 percent) from the third quarter of 2019. |
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3rd Qtr 2020
+7.8 |
2nd Qtr 2020 (r) -9.2 |
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Monthly Wholesale TradeOctober 2020 sales of merchant wholesalers were $496.6 billion, up 1.8 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from last month. End-of-month inventories were $649.0 billion, up 1.1 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from last month. |
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October 2020
+1.1 |
September 2020 (r) +0.9 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail TradeSeasonally adjusted after-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $43.5 billion for the third quarter 2020 (the 3 months ending October 31, 2020), up $4.7 (+/- 0.2) billion from second quarter 2020 (the 3 months ending July 31, 2020). |
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3rd Qtr 2020
+4.7 |
2nd Qtr 2020 (r) +24.0 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service IndustriesManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $148.4 billion for the third quarter of 2020, up $100.3 (+/- 0.8) billion from second quarter of 2020. |
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3rd Qtr 2020
+100.3 |
2nd Qtr 2020 (r) -65.1 |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured goods in October increased $4.9 billion or 1.0 percent to $480.8 billion. |
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October 2020
+1.0° |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and ServicesThe nation's international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $63.1 billion in October from $62.1 billion in September (revised), as imports increased more than exports. |
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63.1° |
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Construction SpendingTotal construction activity for October 2020 ($1,438.5 billion) was 1.3 percent (+/-1.0 percent) above the revised September 2020 ($1,420.4 billion). |
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+1.3 |
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New Residential SalesSales of new single-family houses in October 2020 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 999,000. This is 0.3 percent (+/- 13.6%)* below the revised September 2020 estimate of 1,002,000. |
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-0.3* |
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Advance Monthly Wholesale InventoriesOctober end-of-month inventories were $646.2 billion, up 0.9 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from last month. |
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October 2020
+0.9 |
September 2020 (r) +0.7 |
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Advance U.S. International Trade in GoodsThe advance international trade deficit in goods increased to $80.3 billion in October from $79.4 billion in September as imports increased more than exports. |
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October 2020
80.3° |
September 2020 79.4° |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured durable goods in October increased $3.0 billion or 1.3 percent to $240.8 billion. |
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+1.3° |
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Advance Monthly Retail InventoriesOctober 2020 end-of-month inventories were $612.2 billion, up 0.8 percent (+/- 0.2%) from last month. |
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October 2020
+0.8 |
September 2020 (r) +1.7 |
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Rental Vacancy RateThe rental vacancy rate in the third quarter 2020, 6.4 percent, was lower than the rate in the third quarter 2019. The rental vacancy rate in the South was lower than the third quarter 2019 rate. The rental vacancy rates in the Northeast, Midwest, and West were not statistically different from the third quarter 2019 rates. |
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3rd Qtr 2020
+6.4 |
3rd Qtr 2019 +6.8 |
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Homeownership RateThe homeownership rate in the third quarter 2020, 67.4 percent, was higher than the rate in the third quarter 2019. The homeownership rates in the Midwest, South, and West were higher than the third quarter 2019 rates. The homeownership rate in the Northeast was not statistically different from the third quarter 2019 rate. |
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3rd Qtr 2020
+67.4 |
3rd Qtr 2019 +64.8 |
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Business Formation StatisticsTotal U.S. Business Applications were 1,566,373 in the third quarter of 2020, up 77.4% from second quarter 2020. |
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3rd Qtr 2020
+77.4° |
(*) 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 and Home Ownership Rate. None of the estimates are adjusted for price changes.
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