
Productivity and Employment Costs at a Glance
- Business Sector Productivity: Up 1.9%
- Nonfarm Business Productivity: Up 2.2%
- Manufacturing Productivity: Up 4.1%
- Durable Goods Manufacturing Productivity: Up 2.3%
- Nondurable Goods Manufacturing Productivity: Up 7.0%
- Business Unit Labor Costs: Up 2.2%%
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Non-manufacturing Report At a Glance
Index Readings Above 50 Represent Growth
- NMI/PMI: 52.0
- Change: Up 2.4
- Business Activity/Production Index: 50.9
- Change: Down 1.3
- New Orders: 50.1
- Change: Down 0.1
- Employment: 50.8
- Change: Up 3.9
- Inventories: 47.0
- Change: Down 4.5
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Factory Orders At a Glance
- New Orders: $432.3 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 1.4%
- Shipments: $428.7 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 1.1%
- Inventories: $544.3 billion
- Monthly Change: Up 0.9%
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Employment Situation At a Glance
- Total Employment: 146,331 million
- Nonfarm Payroll Employment: 137,818 million
- Monthly Change: Down 20,000
- Unemployed Persons: 7,626 million
- Unemployment Rate: 5.0%
- Change: Down 0.1%
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Money Supply At a Glance
- M1 Seasonally Adjusted Prior Month: $1372.0 billion
- M1 4-Week Average: $1365.0 billion
- M1 Annual Change (Unadjusted): Up $3.3 billion
- M2 Seasonally Adjusted Prior Month: $7661.6 billion
- M2 4-Week Average: $7677.4 billion
- M2 Annual Change (Unadjusted): Up $510.8 billion
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Jobless Claims At a Glance
- Initial Claims: 380,000
- Change from Last Week: Up 35,000
- 4-Week Moving Average: 363,750
- Insured Unemployment Rate: 2.3%
- Insured Unemployment: 3,019,000
All numbers seasonally adjusted.
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