New Residential ConstructionPrivately-owned housing starts in June 2015 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,174,000. This is 9.8 percent (+/- 19.9%)* above the revised May 2015 estimate of 1,069,000. |
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+9.8* |
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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and SalesU.S. total business end-of-month inventories for May 2015 were $1,797.8 billion, up 0.3 (+/- 0.1%) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,323.6 billion, up 0.4 (+/-0.2%) from last month. |
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May 2015
+0.3 |
April 2015 (r) +0.4 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food ServicesU.S. retail and food services sales for June were $442.0 billion, a decrease of 0.3 percent (+/-0.5%)* from the previous month. |
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June 2015
-0.3* |
May 2015 (r) 1.0 |
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Monthly Wholesale TradeMay 2015 sales of merchant wholesalers were $449.8 billion, up 0.3 percent (+/- 0.5%)* from last month. End-of-month inventories were $581.9 billion, up 0.8 percent (+/- 0.4%) from last month. |
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May 2015
+0.8 |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and ServicesThe Nation's international trade balance in goods and services decreased to -$41.9 billion in May from -$40.7 billion in April (revised), as exports decreased more than imports. |
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-41.9° |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured goods in May decreased $4.5 billion or 1.0 percent to $470.5 billion. |
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May 2015
-1.0° |
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Construction SpendingTotal construction activity for May 2015 ($1,035.8 billion) was 0.8 percent (+/-1.5%)* above the revised April 2015 ($1,027.0 billion). |
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May 2015
+0.8* |
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New Residential SalesSales of new single-family houses in May 2015 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 546,000. This is 2.2 percent (+/- 16.7%)* above the revised April 2015 estimate of 534,000. |
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May 2015
+2.2* |
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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured durable goods in May decreased $4.1 billion or 1.8 percent to $228.9 billion. |
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-1.8° |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail TradeAfter-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $23.0 billion for the first quarter 2015 (the 3 months ending April 30, 2015), down $0.6 (+/- 0.1) billion from fourth quarter 2014 (the 3 months ending January 31, 2015). |
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1st Qtr 2015
-0.6 |
4th Qtr 2014 (r) +7.2 |
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Quarterly Services SurveyThe estimate of U.S. information sector revenue for the first calendar quarter of 2015, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $334.8 billion, an increase of 0.4 percent (+/- 0.6%)* from the fourth quarter of 2014 and up 3.0 percent (+/- 0.8%) from the first quarter of 2014. |
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1st Qtr 2015
+0.4* |
4th Qtr 2014 (r) +1.3 |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service IndustriesManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $128.6 billion for the first quarter of 2015, down $22.6 (+/- 0.2) billion from fourth quarter of 2014. |
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1st Qtr 2015
-22.6 |
4th Qtr 2014 (r) -12.4 |
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Rental Vacancy RateThe rental vacancy rate in the first quarter 2015 was 7.1 percent, down 1.2 (+/- 0.4) percentage points from the first quarter 2014 rate of 8.3 percent. The rental vacancy rates in the Northeast, South and West were lower than the corresponding first quarter 2014 rates, while the rate in the Midwest was not statistically different from the rate a year ago. |
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1st Qtr 2015
+7.1 |
1st Qtr 2014 +8.3 |
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Homeownership RateThe homeownership rate in the first quarter 2015 was 63.7 percent, down 1.1 (+/- 0.4) percentage points from the first quarter 2014 rate of 64.8 percent. The homeownership rates in the Northeast, South and West were lower than the rates in the first quarter 2014, while the rate in the Midwest was not statistically different from the rate a year ago. |
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1st Qtr 2015
+63.7 |
1st Qtr 2014 +64.8 |
(*) The 90% confidence interval includes zero. The Census Bureau does not have sufficient statistical evidence to conclude that the actual change is different from zero.
(°) Statistical significance is not applicable or not measurable for these surveys. The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders estimates are not based on a probability sample, so we can neither measure the sampling error of these estimates nor compute confidence intervals.
(r) Revised.
All estimates are seasonally adjusted except for the Rental Vacancy Rate, Home Ownership Rate, and Quarterly Financial Report for Retail Trade. None of the estimates are adjusted for price changes.
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