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Category Archives: General Business Cycle

Wholesale Trade - February 2008

09-Apr-08

Wholesale Trade At a Glance

Wholesale Sales: $377.4 billion
Monthly Change: Down 0.8%
Year-to-year Change: Up 12.2%
Inventories: $421.9 billion
Monthly Change: Up 1.1%
Inventory Sales Ratio: 1.12

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Federal Open Market Committee minutes - March 10 and March 18, 2008

09-Apr-08

Federal Open Market Committee Minutes - Key Quotes
March 10 Conference Call:

By improving conditions in funding markets, the [Term Securities Lending Facility] was expected to help restore the functioning of financial markets more generally and thereby promote the effective conduct of monetary policy as well as macroeconomic stability.

March 18 Meeting:

…some believed that a prolonged and severe [...]

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Non-manufacturing Report on Business - March 2008

03-Apr-08

Non-manufacturing Report At a Glance
Index Readings Above 50 Represent Growth

NMI/PMI: 49.6
Change: Up 0.3
Business Activity/Production Index: 52.2
Change: Up 1.4
New Orders: 50.2
Change: Up 0.6
Employment: 46.9
Change: Unchanged
Inventories: 51.5
Change: Up 1.5

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ISM Manufacturing Report on Business - March 2008

01-Apr-08

Manufacturing Report At a Glance

Purchasing Managers Index (PMI): 48.6
50+ represents growing economic conditions
Monthly Change: Up 0.3
Inventories: 44.9
Monthly Change: Down 0.5
New Orders: 46.5
Monthly Change: Down 2.6

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Final - 4th Quarter 2007

28-Mar-08

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) At a Glance
4th Quarter Advance Estimate

Real Annual Growth Rate: 0.6%
Previous Quarter Rate: 4.9%
Current Dollar GDP Growth: 3.0%
GDP Implicit Price Deflator:2.4%

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Leading Index, Coincident Index, Lagging Index (US) - February 2008

20-Mar-08

Conference Board Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indicators At a Glance:

Leading Index: Down 0.3%
Coincident Index: Unchanged
Lagging Index: Up 0.2%
Improved Leading Indicators: 4
Unchanged Leading Indicators: 1
Worsened Leading Indicators: 5
Improved Coincident Indicators: 2
Unchanged Coincident Indicators: 0
Worsened Coincident Indicators: 2

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