by sslifer | Dec 4, 2025 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
December 4, 2025 Initial unemployment claims declined 27 thousand in the week ending November 29 to 191 thousand after falling 4 thousand in the previous week. While claims fell sharply in the most recent week that was the week with the Thanksgiving Day holiday...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2025 | NumberNomics Notes, Purchasing Managers Index
December 3, 2025 The Institute for Supply Management not only publishes an index of manufacturing activity each month, they publish two days later a survey of service sector firms. The business activity index climbed 0.2 p[pomt om Mpve,ber tp 54.5 after having...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2025 | Industrial Production, NumberNomics Notes
December 3, 2025 Industrial production rose 0.1% in September after declining 0.3% in August. In the past year industrial production has risen 1.6%. Breaking industrial production down into its three basic categories — manufacturing, mining, and utilities ...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2025 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
December 3, 2025 As shown above the ADP survey shows a respectable correlation with the private sector portion of the payroll employment data to be released a couple of days later. And well it should. ADP, or Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is a provider of...
by sslifer | Dec 2, 2025 | NumberNomics Notes, Retail Sales
December 42 2025 Unit car and truck sales rose 2.0% in November to 15.6 million after having falleln 6.1% in October. Car sales bounced around earlier in the year as consumers bought cars prior to the imposition of imports in early April. As a result, sales jumped...
by sslifer | Dec 1, 2025 | NumberNomics Notes, Purchasing Managers Index
Decfember 2025 The Institute for Supply Management’s index of conditions in the manufacturing sector declined 0.5 point in November to 48.2 after having declined 0.4 point in October. This index was above the break-even level of 50.0 in February but fell below that...
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