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Agency issued economic reports released this week included the April report on New Residential Construction from the Census Bureau and the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary for April from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a report which breaks down the two employment surveys from the monthly national jobs report by state and region….while the text of that report provides a useful summary of this data, the serious statistical aggregation can be found in the tables linked at the end of the report, where one can find the civilian labor force data and the change in payrolls by industry for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands… This week also saw two more regional Fed manufacturing surveys for May:… the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey , covering most of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware, reported their broadest diffusion index of manufacturing conditions fell to –0.4 in May, down from +26.7 in April, wh...

Major economic reports that were released last week were the December Producer Price Index , the November report on our International Trade from agencies within the Commerce Dept, and both the advance report on durable goods for November and the Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders for November , and the November report on Wholesale Trade, Sales and Inventories , all from the Census Bureau….this week also saw the widely watched Case-Shiller Home Price Index for November from S&P Case-Shiller, which indicated that their national home price index for September, October and November averaged 1.4% higher than it was for prices of the same homes that sold during the same 3 month period a year earlier, which was the same as the 1.4% year over year index increase indicated by their October report, which indexed home sales prices over August, September and October against those of the same three months of a year earlier…. The week also saw the release of ...

Major reports released last week included the December Consumer Price Index , the November Producer Price Index , and the November Import-Export Price Index , all from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Retail Sales report for November and the associated Business Sales and Inventories report for October , both from the Census Bureau, the November report on Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization from the Fed, a long delayed Census Bureau report on New Home Sales for both September and October , and the Existing Home Sales report for December from the National Association of Realtors (NAR)…. in addition, the prior week saw the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment for October from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a report which breaks down the two employment surveys from the monthly national jobs report by state and region….while the text of that report provides a useful summary of this data, the serious statistics aggregation can be found in the tables linked at t...

Widely watched economic reports released last week included the Retail Sales Report for August and the Business Sales and Inventories report for July , both from the Census bureau, the August Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization report from the Fed, and the August report on New Residential Construction , also from the Census bureau.…in addition, on Friday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Report for August , a report which breaks down the two employment surveys from the monthly national jobs report by state and by region….while the text of that report provides a useful summary of this data, the serious statistics aggregation can be found in the tables linked at the end of the report, where one can find the civilian labor force data and the change in payrolls by industry for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands… This week also saw the release of the first two regional F...