The wholesale trade report includes sales and inventory statistics from the second stage of the manufacturing process. The sales figures say close to nothing about …
The wholesale trade report includes sales and inventory statistics from the second stage of the manufacturing process. The sales figures say close to nothing about …
Note that the release times for these private surveys are the official embargo times. The releases are provided to subscribers much earlier and typically leaked …
The Michigan index is almost identical to the Conference Board Consumer Confidence index, though there are two monthly releases, a preliminary and final reading. Like …
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The monthly Treasury budget data follow strong seasonal patterns which produce huge month-to-month fluctuations in the deficit. These fluctuations tell us little about long …
In Brief
The employment report is actually two separate reports which are the results of two separate surveys. The household survey is a survey of roughly …
The retail sales report is a measure of the total receipts of retail stores. The changes in retail sales are widely followed as the most …
There are many regional manufacturing surveys, and they tend to be ranked in order of timeliness and the importance of the region. The Philadelphia Fed’s …
Nonfarm productivity and costs provide measures of the productivity of workers and the costs associated with producing a unit of output. During times of inflationary …