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  • Quarterly Services Survey
    U.S. Information sector revenue for the first quarter of 2010, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $289.2 billion, a increase of 1.1 percent (+/- 0.5) from the third quarte
  • Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
    New orders for manufactured goods in July increased $0.6 billion or 0.1 percent to $409.5 billion. July 2010: 0.1 % change June 2010: -0.6 % change
  • Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
    U.S. total business sales for June 2010 were $1,080.5 billion, down 0.6% (±0.2%) from last month. Month end inventories were $1,359.9 billion, up 0.3% (±0.1%) from last month. June 2010: -0.6 % C
  • Housing Starts/Building Permits
    Privately-owned housing starts in July 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000. This is 1.7 percent above the revised June 2010 estimate of 537,000. July 2010: +1.7 % change June
  • Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
    New orders for manufactured durable goods in July increased $0.6 billion or 0.3 percent to $193.0 billion. July 2010: 0.3 % change June 2010: -0.1 % change
  • New Home Sales
    Sales of new one-family houses in July 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 276,000. This is 12.4% below the revised June 2010 estimate of 315,000. July 2010: -12.4 % change June 2010
  • Housing Vacancies and Homeownership
    Homeownership Rate (HR) The homeownership rate in the second quarter 2010 (66.9 percent) was lower than the second quarter 2009 rate (67.4 percent). In the South and West, the homeownership rates w
  • Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining and Trade
    Manufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits averaged 7.7 cents per dollar of sales for the first quarter of 2010, not statistically different from the fourth quarter of 2009. 1
  • Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade
    After-tax profits for retail corporations with assets greater than $50 million averaged 3.0 cents per dollar of sales for the first quarter 2010 (the 3 months ending Apr. 30, 2010), down 0.1 (+/- 0.1
  • U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services
    The Nation's international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $49.9 billion in June 2010 from $42.0 billion in May (revised), as imports increased and exports decreased. June 2010: -49