Retail inventories increased to $808.8 billion in February. That figure is 0.5% higher than January and 5.6% higher than it was a year earlier, the Census Bureau said in a Friday (March 29) press release sharing advance economic indicators. The bureau also revised its previously...
The latest reading on retail sales data from the Census Bureau showed that overall retail sales were up 0.6% month over month, reversing a 1.1% decline that had been seen in January. And given the fact that the “non-store retailers” line item — generally used as...
The U.S. Census Bureau revised its wholesale inventories estimate for January downward Wednesday (March 6). Total inventories dipped 0.3% in January compared with December 2023, rather than the drop of 0.1% the agency reported earlier in an advanced estimate, the Census Bureau said in a Wednesday press release....
New orders for manufactured durable goods declined by 6.1% in January. Orders dropped by $18 billion to $276.7 billion during the month, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a Tuesday (Feb. 27) press release. January’s drop in orders for durable goods followed a 0.3% decline...
March 14, 2024
The latest reading on retail sales data from the Census Bureau showed that overall retail sales were up 0.6% month over month, reversing a 1.1% decline that had been seen in January. And given the fact that the “non-store retailers” line item — generally used as a proxy for online sales — was down 0.1% month […]
July 18, 2023
June’s retail sales report missed expectations — and it may be the case that tepid consumer spending, while still increasing, may wind up causing a buildup of inventory on merchants’...
May 01, 2024
Construction spending in the U.S. declined unexpectedly in March after being unchanged in February. Data from the Census Bureau released Wednesday (May 1) showed spending at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2.083 trillion, 0.2% below the revised February estimate of $2.087 trillion. A report by Reuters notes the dip was unexpected, as economists polled by the news organization had […]
March 29, 2024
Retail inventories increased to $808.8 billion in February. That figure is 0.5% higher than January and 5.6% higher than it was a year earlier, the Census Bureau said in a...
March 06, 2024
The U.S. Census Bureau revised its wholesale inventories estimate for January downward Wednesday (March 6). Total inventories dipped 0.3% in January compared with December 2023, rather than the drop of 0.1% the...
February 27, 2024
New orders for manufactured durable goods declined by 6.1% in January. Orders dropped by $18 billion to $276.7 billion during the month, the U.S. Census Bureau said in a Tuesday...
