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  • Quarterly Financial Report - Manufacturing, Mining and Trade
    Manufacturing corporations' seasonally adjusted after-tax profits averaged 7.7 cents per dollar of sales for the first quarter of 2010, not statistically different from the fourth quarter of 2009. 1
  • Housing Vacancies and Homeownership
    Homeownership Rate (HR) The homeownership rate in the second quarter 2010 (66.9 percent) was lower than the second quarter 2009 rate (67.4 percent). In the South and West, the homeownership rates w
  • Housing Starts/Building Permits
    Privately-owned housing starts in June 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 549,000. This is 5.0 percent below the revised May 2010 estimate of 578,000. June 2010: -5.0 % change May 20
  • New Home Sales
    Sales of new one-family houses in June 2010 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 330,000. This is 23.6% above the revised May 2010 estimate of 267,000. June 2010: +23.6 % change May 2010:
  • U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services
    The Nation's international trade deficit in goods and services increased to $42.3 billion in May 2010 from $40.3 billion (revised) in April, as imports increased more than exports. May 2010: -42.3 $
  • Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories
    May 2010 sales of merchant wholesalers were $350.6 billion, down 0.3 percent (+/-0.5%) from last month. End-of-month inventories were $398.8 billion, up 0.5 percent (+/-0.4%) from last month. May 20
  • Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
    New orders for manufactured goods in May decreased $5.8 billion or 1.4 percent to $413.2 billion. May 2010: -1.4 % change April 2010: 1.0 % change
  • Construction Spending
    Total construction activity for May 2010 ($841.9 billion) was 0.2 percent below the revised April 2010 ($843.3 billion). Please see our web site for further details: http://www.census.gov/constructio
  • Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
    U.S. retail and food service sales for June reached $360.2 billion, a decrease of -0.5 percent (±0.5%) from the previous month. June 2010: -0.5 % change May 2010: -1.1 % change
  • Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
    U.S. total business sales for May 2010 were $1,090.2 billion, down 0.9% (+/-0.2%) from last month. Month end inventories were $1,355.7 billion, up 0.1% (+/-0.1%)* from last month. May 2010: -0.9 %