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  • Quarterly Services Survey
    U.S. Information sector revenue for the first quarter of 2010, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $289.2 billion, a increase of 1.1 percent (+/- 0.5) from the third quarte
  • Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
    New orders for manufactured durable goods in June decreased $2.0 billion or 1.0 percent to $190.5 billion. June 2010: -1.0 % change May 2010: -0.8 % 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 %
  • 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
  • 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 $
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Quarterly Financial Report - Retail Trade
    After-tax profits for retail corporations with assets greater than $50 million averaged 3.0 cents per dollar of sales for the first quarter 2010 (the 3 months ending Apr. 30, 2010), down 0.1 (+/- 0.1
  • 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