Monthly Sales At a Glance
Total Retail and Food Service Sales: $343.2 billion
Monthly Change: Down 2.7%
Annual Change: Down 9.8%
Retail Sales: Down 10.8% year to year
Gasoline station sales: Down 35% year to year
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Import Export Prices At a Glance
Import Prices: -4.2%
Non-petroleum Import Prices: -1.1%
Export Prices: -2.3%
Non-agricultural Export Prices: -1.9%
Agricultural Export Prices: -6.5%
Yearly Import Price Change: -9.3%
Yearly Export Price Change: -3.2%
Technorati Tags: export, import, price, index, inflation, international trade
Monster Employment Index At a Glance
Index: 131
Monthly Change: Down 12
Year-to-year Change: Down 38 Points
Regions Growing: 0
Regions Unchanged: 0
Regions Declining: 9
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Jobless Claims At a Glance
Initial Claims: 467,000
Change from Last Week: Down 24,000
4-Week Moving Average: 525,750
Insured Unemployment Rate: 3.4%
Insured Unemployment: 4,611,000
All numbers seasonally adjusted.
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Construction Spending At a Glance
Total Construction Spending: $1,078.4 BILLION
Monthly Change: Down 0.6%
Year-to-year Change: Down 3.3%
Private Residential Spending: $328.3 billion
Monthly Change: Down 4.2%
Private Non-residential: $428.2 billion
Monthly Change: Up 0.7%
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Conference Board Leading, Coincident and Lagging Indicators At a Glance:
Leading Index: Down 0.4%
Coincident Index: Down 0.3%
Lagging Index: Up 0.1%
Improved Leading Indicators: 4
Unchanged Leading Indicators: 0
Worsened Leading Indicators: 6
Improved Coincident Indicators: 1
Unchanged Coincident Indicators: 0
Worsened Coincident Indicators: 3
