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April’s consumer and producer prices, retail sales, industrial production, & existing home sales; March business inventories

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Regular monthly reports that were released last week included the April Consumer Price Index , the April Producer Price Index and the April Import-Export Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Retail Sales report for April and the Manufacturing and Trade, Inventories and Sales report for March (pdf), both from the Census Bureau, the April report on Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization from the Fed, and the Existing Home Sales Report for April from the National Association of Realtors…. This week also saw the first regional Fed manufacturing survey for May: the Empire State Manufacturing Survey from the New York Fed , which covers all of New York state, a NYC suburban county in Connecticut, northern New Jersey, and Puerto Rico, reported their headline general business conditions index rose to +19.6 in May from +11.0 in April, its highest level in more than four years, which would indicate that a solid majority of Second District manufacturers now see improv...
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April’s jobs report; March’s trade deficit, construction spending, new home sales, factory inventories, wholesale inventories, and JOLTS

Major economic reports released last week included the Employment Situation Summary for April and the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for March, both from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Commerce Department’s report on our international trade in goods and services for March , and the March report on Construction Spending (pdf), the March report on new home sales , the Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders for March , and the Wholesale Trade, Sales and Inventories report for March , all from the Census Bureau….in addition, the Fed released the Consumer Credit Report for March on Thursday of this week, which indicated that overall consumer credit, a measure of non-real estate debt, had grown by a seasonally adjusted $24.8 billion in March, or at a 5.8% annual rate, as non-revolving credit expanded at a 2.7% annual rate to $3,682.2 billion, while revolving credit outstanding grew at a 9.1% rate to $1,337.0 billion…for the first quarter of 2...
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1st Quarter GDP; March’s income and outlays, durable goods, and housing starts

The key economic releases from government agencies during the past week were the Advance Estimate of 1st quarter GDP and the concurrent March report on Personal Income and Spending , both from the Bureau of Economic Analysis; other widely watched releases included the March advance report on durable goods and the March report on New Residential Construction , both from the Census bureau… Major privately issued reports released during the week included the February Case-Shiller Home Price Index from S&P Case-Shiller, which indicated that their index of the relative average of December, January and February home prices was 0.7% higher than their index of average prices for the same homes that sold during the same 3 month period of a year earlier; the light vehicle sales report for April from Wards Automotive , which estimated that vehicles sold at a 16.4 million annual rate in April, up from the 16.3 million sales rate in March, but down from the 17.27 million annual sales rate re...
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