Industrial Production Falls 0.5% in April
May 15, 9:28 AM ET |
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| Production in manufacturing declined 0.3% in April. |
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| Industrial production decreased 0.5% in April after having fallen 1.7% in March. Production in manufacturing declined 0.3% in April and was 16% below its recent peak in December 2007. The decreases in manufacturing in April remained broadly based across industries. |
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Consumer Price Index Remains Unchanged in April
May 15, 9:14 AM ET |
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| The indexes for motor fuel, fuel oil, natural gas, and electricity all declined in April. |
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| On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U was unchanged in April after declining 0.1% in March. The energy index declined for the second straight month, falling 2.4% after declining 3% in March. |
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Jobless Claims Rise by 32,000
May 14, 9:08 AM ET |
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| The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 4.6% during the week ending May 2, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week. |
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| In the week ending May 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 637,000, an increase of 32,000 from the previous week''''s revised figure of 605,000. The 4-week moving average was 630,500, an increase of 6,000 from the previous week''''s revised average of 624,500. |
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Producer Price Index Rises 0.3% in April
May 14, 8:57 AM ET |
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| The index for finished consumer foods moved up 1.5% in April following a 0.7% decline in the prior month. |
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| The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods increased 0.3% in April, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. This rise followed a 1.2% decline in March and a 0.1% increase in February. |
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Crude and Gasoline Inventories Decline
May 13, 10:44 AM ET |
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| Distillate fuel inventories increased by 1.0 million barrels, and are above the upper boundary of the average range for this time of year. |
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| U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 4.7 million barrels from the previous week. At 370.6 million barrels, U.S. crude oil inventories are above the upper boundary of the average range for this time of year. Total motor gasoline inventories decreased by 4.1 million barrels last week, and are in the middle of the average range. Both finished gasoline inventories and gasoline blending components inventories decreased last week. |
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Business Inventories Fall 1% in March
May 13, 10:10 AM ET |
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| The total business inventories/sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of March was 1.44. |
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| Manufacturers'''' and trade inventories, adjusted for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were estimated at an end-of-month level of $1,404.1 billion, down 1% from February 2009 and down 4.8% from March 2008. |
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Import and Export Prices Rise in April
May 13, 8:54 AM ET |
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| Prices for the major finished goods categories were mixed in April. |
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| The U.S. Import Price Index rose 1.6% in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. A 15.4% increase in import petroleum prices more than offset a 0.4% decline in the price index for nonpetroleum imports. Export prices also rose in April, increasing 0.5%. |
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Retail Sales Decline 0.4% in April
May 13, 8:43 AM ET |
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| Total sales for the February through April 2009 period were down 9.2% from the same period a year ago. |
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| The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for April, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $337.7 billion, a decrease of 0.4% from the previous month and 10.1% below April 2008. |
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Trade Deficit Widens in March
May 12, 8:50 AM ET |
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| Exports of goods decreased $2.5 billion to $82.0 billion, and imports of goods decreased $1.3 billion to $120.3 billion. |
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| The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, announced today that total March exports of $123.6 billion and imports of $151.2 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $27.6 billion, up from $26.1 billion in February, revised. March exports were $3.0 billon less than February exports of $126.6 billion. |
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Wholesale Inventories Decline 1.6%
May 08, 10:52 AM ET |
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| March sales of durable goods were down 3.3% from last month and were down 19.6% from a year ago. |
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| Total inventories of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, after adjustment for seasonal variations but not for price changes, were $411.7 billion at the end of March, down 1.6% from the revised February level and were down 3.5% from a year ago. |
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