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Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured durable goods in November increased $1.9 billion or 0.8 percent to $250.8 billion. |
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New Residential ConstructionPrivately-owned housing starts in November 2018 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,256,000. This is 3.2 percent (+/- 9.8%)* above the revised October 2018 estimate of 1,217,000. |
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Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and SalesU.S. total business end-of-month inventories for October 2018 were $1,982.2 billion, up 0.6 percent (+/- 0.1 percent) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,469.9 billion, up 0.3 percent (+/- 0.2 percent) from last month. |
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September 2018 (r) +0.5 |
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Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food ServicesU.S. retail and food services sales for November 2018 were $513.5 billion, an increase of 0.2 percent (+/-0.5%)* from the previous month. |
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Monthly Wholesale TradeOctober 2018 sales of merchant wholesalers were $510.1 billion, down 0.2 percent (+/- 0.5 percent)* from last month. End-of-month inventories were $652.1 billion, up 0.8 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from last month. |
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September 2018 (r) +0.7 |
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Quarterly Services SurveyThe estimate of U.S. selected services total revenue for the third quarter of 2018, not adjusted for seasonal variation or price changes, was $3,938.0 billion, an increase of 1.9 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from the second quarter of 2018 and up 6.3 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from the third quarter of 2017. The second quarter of 2018 to third quarter of 2018 percentage change was revised from the advance estimate of 2.0 percent (+/- 0.4 percent). |
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Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and OrdersNew orders for manufactured goods in October decreased $10.5 billion or 2.1 percent to $502.7 billion. |
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U.S. International Trade in Goods and ServicesThe nation's international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $55.5 billion in October from $54.6 billion in September (revised), as exports decreased and imports increased. |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Retail TradeSeasonally adjusted after-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $23.6 billion for the third quarter 2018 (the 3 months ending October 31, 2018), up $2.2 (+/- 0.2) billion from second quarter 2018 (the 3 months ending July 31, 2018). |
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Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining, Wholesale Trade, and Selected Service IndustriesManufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $158.1 billion for the third quarter of 2018, down $24.5 (+/- 0.5) billion from second quarter of 2018. |
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Construction SpendingTotal construction activity for October 2018 ($1,308.8 billion) was 0.1 percent (+/-1.5 percent)* below the revised September 2018 ($1,310.8 billion). |
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New Residential SalesSales of new single-family houses in October 2018 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 544,000. This is 8.9 percent (+/- 13.7%)* below the revised September 2018 estimate of 597,000. |
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Advance Monthly Retail InventoriesOctober 2018 end-of-month inventories were $648.5 billion, up 0.9 percent (+/- 0.2%) from last month. |
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Advance U.S. International Trade in GoodsThe advance international trade deficit in goods increased to $77.2 billion in October from $76.3 billion in September as exports decreased and imports increased. |
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September 2018 76.3° |
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Advance Monthly Wholesale InventoriesOctober end-of-month inventories were $650.4 billion, up 0.7 percent (+/- 0.4 percent) from last month. |
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October 2018
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September 2018 (r) +0.6 |
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Homeownership RateThe homeownership rate in the third quarter 2018, 64.4 percent, was not statistically different from the rate in the third quarter 2017 (63.9 percent). The homeownership rate in the West was higher than in the third quarter 2017, while rates in the Northeast, Midwest, and South were not statistically different from the rates in the third quarter 2017. |
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Rental Vacancy RateThe rental vacancy rate in the third quarter 2018, 7.1 percent, was lower than the rate in the third quarter 2017 (7.5 percent). The rental vacancy rates in the South and West were lower than in the third quarter 2017, while rates in the Northeast and Midwest were not statistically different from the third quarter 2017 rates. |
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3rd Qtr 2018
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(*) 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, Quarterly Financial Report for Retail Trade, and Quarterly Services Survey. None of the estimates are adjusted for price changes.
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