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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...

Major economic reports released last week were the Employment Situation Summary for December and the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for November, both from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Commerce Department’s report on our International Trade for October , and the Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders for October , and the October report on Wholesale Trade, Sales and Inventories , and the September and October reports on New Residential Construction , all from the Census bureau….also last week, the Fed released the Consumer Credit Report for November , which showed that overall consumer credit, a measure of non-real estate debt, increased by a seasonally adjusted $4.2 billion, or at a 1.0% annual rate, as non-revolving credit grew at a 2.0% rate to $3,770.9 billion in November, while revolving credit outstanding shrunk at a 1.9% rate to $1,313.9 billion… Privately issued reports released last week included the ADP Employment Repo...

Major agency reports released this past week included the Employment Situation Summary for September from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the August report on our International Trade from the Commerce Dept, and the August report on Construction Spending (pdf), the Full Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders for August , and the September report on Wholesale Trade, Sales and Inventories , all from the Census Bureau from the Census Bureau…in addition, this week also saw the regularly scheduled Existing Home Sales Report for October from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), and the first three regional Fed manufacturing surveys for November: the Empire State Manufacturing Survey from the New York Fed, which covers all of New York state, a suburban NYC county in Connecticut, Puerto Rico and northern New Jersey, reported their headline general business conditions index rose from +10.7 in October to +18.7 in November, its fourth increase in five months, meanin...