Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Release Date: March 17, 2014 Industrial production increased 0.6 percent in February after having declined 0.2 percent in January. In February, manufacturing output rose 0.8 percent and nearly reversed its decline of 0.9 percent in January, which resulted, in part, from extreme weather. The gain in factory production in February was the largest since last August. The output of utilities edged down 0.2 percent following a jump of 3.8 percent in January, and the production at mines moved up 0.3 percent. Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: Summary Seasonally adjusted r Revised. p Preliminary. Market Groups In February, the production of consumer goods rose 0.8 percent and was 2.6 percent above its level of a year earlier. The production of business equipment rose 1.3 percent in February after having been little changed, on net, over the preceding four months. Industry Groups Mining output moved up 0.3 percent in February to a level 6.1 percent higher than a year earlier. Note.
China Financial Markets CBO Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Consumer Price Index (CPI) The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. Consumer Price Index March 18, 2014 On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.1 percent in February after rising 0.1 percent in January. Current CPI Economic News Releases CPI News Release (HTML) (PDF) Subscribe to the BLS News Service—receive the Consumer Price Index news release by e-mail. Archived Notices Revised Seasonal Indexes UPDATED Each year with the release of the January CPI, seasonal adjustment factors are recalculated to reflect price movements from the just-completed calendar year. For information on seasonal adjustment in the CPI, including revised indexes, seasonal factors, methodology, and actions taken in 2013, see our page on seasonal adjustment. Social Security COLA CPI Published Numbers Contacts Information and Analysis: (202) 691-7000
US Census Bureau Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orde This Javascript allows the page in IE to resize to the minimum width of 853 pixels and no less. You are here: Census.gov › Business & Industry › Manufacturing › Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Skip top of page navigation This Javascript highlights what section of the main navigation you are on and unlinks its URL. Overview The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey provides broad-based, monthly statistical data on economic conditions in the domestic manufacturing sector. Advance Report Highlights February 2014 Advance Report released March 26, 2014 at 8:30 A.M. Full Report Highlights February 2014 Full Report released April 2, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. Benchmark Reports Highlights Benchmark Reports released May 17, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. Summary of Revisions and Survey Information Excel [2.58mb] Annual Benchmark Data and Benchmark Procedures Excel [6.03mb] Trading Day Diagnostics Excel [1.96mb] Seasonal Summary Measures Excel [2.02mb] [PDF] or This symbol
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TIC - Treasury International Capital PART A: Foreign Residents' Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities -- (4-30-2013) Historical data from the surveys during 1974-2012 are available showing the market value of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities by country and by type of security. (Also in "CSV" and "tab-delimited text" formats.) NEW (2-28-2014). The preliminary data from the annual survey on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities at End-June 2013 are available, along with the Press Release, dated February 28, 2014.(4-30-2013) Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. PART B: U.S. (10-31-2013). (May 2012) Improving the Measurement of Cross-Border Securities Holdings: The Treasury International Capital SLT (PDF). For other articles on TIC data, see the Articles on TIC webpage.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. Consumer Price Index March 15, 2013 On a seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers increased 0.7 percent in February after being unchanged in January. The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 percent in February after rising 0.3 percent in January. More... ( HTML ) ( PDF ) Current CPI Economic News Releases CPI News Release ( HTML ) ( PDF ) Subscribe to the BLS News Service —receive the Consumer Price Index news release by e-mail. Archived Notices Revised Seasonal Indexes UPDATED Each year with the release of the January CPI, seasonal adjustment factors are recalculated to reflect price movements from the just-completed calendar year. Social Security COLA CPI Published Numbers Contacts Information and Analysis: (202) 691-7000
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Federal Budget Spending and the National Debt Steve Keen's Debtwatch I’ve attended two conferences in two days where both the power and the impotence of the European Central Bank (EBC) have been on vivid display. Its political power is considerable, both in form and in substance. At both seminars, the ECB speaker—ECB Board member Peter Praet at the first, and ECB President Mario Draghi at the second—spoke first, and then left. In form, the ECB has no need to defend its policies because it is unimpeachable in its execution of them. In substance, it does not even considering engaging with its subjects—I use the word deliberately—in open and robust discussion. The position of the economy in the environment is a shared blindspot in economics: no existing school handles the topic well, and yet this is the key issue we need to understand. Click here for the Powerpoint slides. Permanent link to this post (73 words, estimated 18 secs reading time) Click here to download the Powerpoint slides.