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Advance Retail Sales
Retail sales include merchandise sold for cash or credit at retail and wholesale by establishments primarily engaged in retail trade; amounts received from customers for layaway purchases; receipts from rental or leasing of vehicles, equipment, instruments, tools, etc.; receipts for delivery, installation, maintenance, repair, alteration, storage, and other services; the total value of service contracts; and gasoline, liquor, tobacco, and other excise taxes which are paid by the manufacturer or wholesaler and passed on to the retailer.
Advance Monthly Retail Sales reports contain the advance estimates for the reporting month and preliminary sales data for the previous month by major kind-of-business group. Data presented are both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted.
Frequency: Monthly (About 9 working days after the close of the reference month.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Advance Retail Sales
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

Business Inventories
Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales reports contain preliminary figures for the current month and final figures for the previous month. Statistics include sales, inventories and inventories-to-sales ratios for the combined domestic activities of retailers', wholesalers' and manufacturers'. The report also includes retail inventories and retailers' inventories-to-sales ratios by 2-digit SIC code. Data are both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted.
Frequency: Monthly (Approximately 6 weeks after the close of the reference month.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

Capacity Utilization
See Industrial Production

Construction Spending
Frequency: Monthly (First workday of the second month after the survey month at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Value of Construction Put in Place

Consumer Price Index
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a fixed market basket of consumer goods and services from A to Z. The CPI provides a way for consumers to compare what the market basket of goods and services costs this month with what the same market basket cost a month or a year ago.
Frequency: Monthly
More Information: U.S. Department of Labor: Consumer Price Index
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Prices

Durable Goods Orders
Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and Orders press releases include seasonally and not seasonally adjusted estimates of shipments, new orders and unfilled orders for durable goods industries.
Frequency: Monthly (About 17 working days after each month.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Manufacturing
U.S. Census Bureau: Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and Orders
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

Employment Report
The establishment payroll survey, known as the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey, is administered to a monthly sample of nearly 400,000 business establishments nationwide. The primary statistics derived from the survey are monthly estimates of employment, hours, and earnings for the Nation, States, and major metropolitan areas. Preliminary national estimates for a given reference month are typically published on the first Friday of the following month, in conjunction with data derived from a separate survey of households, the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is the source of statistics on the activities of the labor force, including unemployment and the Nation's unemployment rate.
Frequency: Monthly
More Information: Bureau of Labor Statistics: National Current Employment Statistics
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Employment

Factory Orders
Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and Orders press releases include seasonally and not seasonally adjusted estimates of shipments, new orders and unfilled orders for durable goods industries.
Frequency: Monthly (About 17 working days after each month.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Manufacturing
U.S. Census Bureau: Preliminary Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

FOMC Meeting
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is a twelve-member committee made up of the seven members of the Board of Governors; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and, on a rotating basis, the presidents of four other Reserve Banks. The FOMC meets to set Federal Reserve guidelines regarding the purchase and sale of government securities in the open market as a means of influencing the volume of bank credit and money in the economy. It also establishes policy relating to System operations in the foreign exchange markets.
Frequency: Eight times per year
More Information: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Money

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Total value of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States during a specific period. In 1991, GDP became the U.S. government's primary measure of economic activity in the nation, replacing gross national product (GNP), which is the total value of goods and services produced by labor and property supplied by U.S. residents (but not necessarily located within the country).
Frequency: Quarterly
More Information: Bureau of Economic Analysis: Press Releases
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Output

Housing Starts
Frequency: Monthly (12th workday of the following month at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Housing Starts Statistics
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
The Federal Reserve's monthly index of industrial production and the related capacity indexes and capacity utilization rates cover manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities. The industrial sector, together with construction, accounts for the bulk of the variation in national output over the course of the business cycle. The industrial detail provided by these measures helps illuminate structural developments in the economy.
The production index measures real output and is expressed as a percentage of real output in a base year, currently 1992. The capacity index, which is an estimate of sustainable potential output, is also expressed as a percentage of actual output in 1992. The production indexes are computed as annually weighted Fisher indexes since 1977; the weights are based on annual estimates of value added. The rate of capacity utilization equals the seasonally adjusted output index expressed as a percentage of the related capacity index.
Frequency: Monthly
More Information: Federal Reserve: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

Initial Jobless Claims
Frequency: Weekly
More Information: N/A

Johnson Redbook
The Johnson Redbook report tracks 15 retail chains to determine changes in sales, comparing cumulative month-to-date sales to the same period of the previous month.
Frequency: Weekly (Tuesdays at 2:45 p.m. ET.)
More Information: N/A

Leading Indicators
Frequency: Monthly
More Information: N/A

Merchandise Trade BOP
The balance of trade figures, along with other various detailed foreign trade data, are included in the U.S. International Trade In Goods and Services report, commonly referred to as the FT900.
Frequency: Monthly (About 45 days after the statistical month covered.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: U.S. International Trade Statistics
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: International

Monthly Budget Statement
Frequency: Monthly
More Information: N/A

New Home Sales
Frequency: Monthly (21st workday of the following month at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: New Home Sales Statistics

Personal Income
Frequency: Monthly
More Information: Bureau of Economic Analysis: Press Releases
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Income

Producer Price Index
The Producer Price Index is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPI's measure price change from the perspective of the seller. This contrasts with other measures, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI), that measure price change from the purchaser's perspective. Sellers' and purchasers' prices may differ due to government subsidies, sales and excise taxes, and distribution costs.
Over 10,000 PPI's for individual products and groups of products are released each month. PPI's are available for the products of virtually every industry in the mining and manufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy. New PPI's are gradually being introduced for the products of industries in the transportation, utilities, trade, finance, and services sectors of the economy.
Frequency: Monthly (First-published data for a particular month as well as the revisions from the previous 4 months (final figures) are available the following month, usually during the second full week.)
More Information: U.S. Department of Labor: Producer Price Index
Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Prices

Wholesale Inventories
Monthly Wholesale Trade, Sales and Inventories reports provide monthly estimates of sales and inventories of wholesale trade industries. They contain preliminary current month figures and final figures for the previous month. Statistics include sales, inventories, and stock/sale ratios by 3-digit SIC code along with standard errors. Data are both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted.
Frequency: Monthly (6 weeks after the close of the reference month.)
More Information: U.S. Census Bureau: Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey

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