by sslifer | Oct 13, 2026 | Housing, NumberNomics Notes
October 13, 2026 . Existing home sales edged upwards by 1.5% in September to 3,990 thousand after having declined 3.2% in August. Home sales have been floundering at about this same pace for the past two years. In the past year home sales have declined 2.2%....
by sslifer | Oct 6, 2026 | Miscellaneous, NumberNomics Notes
October 6, 2026 The trade deficit for August widened by $12.7 billion to $105.6 billion after having widened by $21.6 billion in July. As a result, the trade component of GDP should subtract roughly three percentage points from GDP growth in the third quarter. Even...
by sslifer | Oct 5, 2026 | NumberNomics Notes, Purchasing Managers Index
October 5, 2026 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 for the service sector fell 5.2 points in September to 56.5...
by sslifer | Oct 2, 2026 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
October 2, 2026 . .Payroll employment rose by 29 thousand in September after climbing by 133 thousand in August. In the past three months payroll employment has risen on average by 51 thousand per month .The labor market seems to be improving slowly but steadily....
by sslifer | Oct 2, 2026 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
October 2, 2026 . Private sector employment rose by 46 thousand in September after climbing by 89 thousand in August. In the past three months private sector employment has risen on average by 54 thousand per month .The labor market seems to be improving slowly but...
by sslifer | Oct 2, 2026 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
October 2, 2026 OK The unemployment rate rose 0.1% in September to 4.2% after having been unchanged in August. The labor force jumped by 485 thousand in September while employment rose by 406 thousand. As a result, the number of unemployed workers rose by 78...
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